{"id":79614,"date":"2018-06-14T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/brains-may-teeter-near-their-tipping-point"},"modified":"2018-06-14T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:22:21","slug":"brains-may-teeter-near-their-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/brains-may-teeter-near-their-tipping-point","title":{"rendered":"Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-may-teeter-near-their-tipping-point.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a renewed attempt at a grand unified theory of brain function, physicists now argue that brains optimize performance by staying near \u2014 though not exactly at \u2014 the critical point between two phases.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/brains-may-teeter-near-their-tipping-point-20180614\/\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/brains-may-teeter-near-their-...-20180614\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a renewed attempt at a grand unified theory of brain function, physicists now argue that brains optimize performance by staying near \u2014 though not exactly at \u2014 the critical point between two phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79614","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}