I was asked a question on Quora about a recent study that talked about high-dimensional ‘structures’ in the brain. It has been receiving an inordinate amount of hype, partly as a result of the journal’s own blog. Their headline reads:
‘Blue Brain Team Discovers a Multi-Dimensional Universe in Brain Networks’
As if the reference to a ‘universe’ weren’t bad enough, the last author, Henry Markram, says the following:
Neurologism 