"The structure of the brain at the cellular level appears to be near a phase transition," said Northwestern's Helen Ansell, the first author of a paper about the finding. "An everyday example of this is when ice melts into water. It's still water molecules, but they are undergoing a transition from solid to liquid. We certainly are not saying that the brain is near melting. In fact, we don't have a way of knowing what two phases the brain could be transitioning between. Because if it were on either side of the critical point, it wouldn't be a brain."
I'm gonna have a meltdown
The absolute state
Might as well move to /x/ at this point. Science is as fake and gay as the paranormal.
>"In fact, we don't have a way of knowing what two phases the brain could be transitioning between."
>"It seems the brain is in a delicate balance between two phases."
so it's delicate, but has never been shown to collapse in order to reveal either of the "two phases"?
what
mental asylums are full of phase-transitioned brains
this is either a new sokal experiment or a case of dunning-kruger meeting schizolalia and having a lovechild.
Orch or homie
Well I'm not surprised that brain has extraordinary properties, its not an usual thing you just see pop up randomly in the universe. So allright, phase transition sounds crazy and how about number of neuron connections? That is not crazy?
Solid and liquid.
What else would it be? Gas? No.
>We certainly are not saying that the brain is near melting. In fact, we don't have a way of knowing what two phases the brain could be transitioning between.
what the frick is this intelligible shit? did they just make that up to sound smart or relating their discipline to physics? what a bunch of envious fellows.
>intelligible
unintelligible*
There's a cultural obsession with tortured analogies instead of being straight forward when trying to communicate things. It's probably a side effect of the cultural obsession with identity politics where when data disagrees with ideology, the go to solution is to switch to an analogy and then use some aspect of new frame of reference that isn't actually analogous to the original frame to prove something 'correct' that's not true. Once a person gets accustomed to that way of thinking, it becomes their default way of communicating even with a direct statement would be more efficient and there's no intent to deceive.
Great way of putting it
>stir salt into water
>this confuses the scientist
I remember a thread about this shit from 2012, picrel.
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/4461897
this doesn't really seem like news
why do you remember a 12 year old thread?
for the same reason I remember lots of other useless crap
Kinda cringe but actually decent OC, from way back when before all the bots and /misc/tards flooded this place
>oh, it’s probably just the journalists being moronic again
>did you know...
>that in the human brain....
>it isn't the case that all neurons are firing at 100% at all times
>it also isn't the case that all neurons are off
>it's something..... In between
Wow
What about quantum neurons that are on and off at the same time.
there are no neurons, and there are no quantum neurons. think outside the headset.
bro.
>the brain is warm fat
Wow, groundbreaking