{"id":71329,"date":"2017-07-28T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-discover-natures-algorithm-for-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:02:24","slug":"scientists-discover-natures-algorithm-for-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-discover-natures-algorithm-for-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover nature\u2019s algorithm for intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But if there is some kind of unifying computational principle governing our grey matter, what is it? Dr. Tsien has studied this for over a decade, and he believes he\u2019s found the answer in something called the Theory of Connectivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people have long speculated that there has to be a basic design principle from which intelligence originates and the brain evolves, like how the double helix of DNA and genetic codes are universal for every organism,\u201d Tsien said. \u201cWe present evidence that the brain may operate on an amazingly simple mathematical logic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Theory of Connectivity holds that a simple algorithm, called a power-of-two-based permutation taking the form of n=2i<\/em><\/sup>-1 can be used to explain the circuitry of the brain. To unpack the formula, let\u2019s define a few key concepts from the theory of connectivity, specifically the idea of a neuronal clique. A neuronal clique is a group of neurons which \u201cfire together\u201d and cluster into functional connectivity motifs, or FCMs, which the brain uses to recognize specific patterns or ideas. One can liken it to branches on a tree, with the neuronal clique being the smallest unit of connectivity, a mere twig, which when combined with other cliques, link up to form an FCM. The more complex the idea being represented in the brain, the more convoluted the FCM. The n<\/em> in n=2i<\/em><\/sup>-1 specifies the number of neuronal cliques that will fire in response to a given input, i<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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But if there is some kind of unifying computational principle governing our grey matter, what is it? Dr. Tsien has studied this for over a decade, and he believes he\u2019s found the answer in something called the Theory of Connectivity. \u201cMany people have long speculated that there has to be a basic design principle from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,41,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}