10 August 2006

A TISSUE OF NEURONS I


Today we have received the visit of the doctor, Carmen Antúnez. This encounter is revealing, especially when Carmen shows an image, a photograph, of a brain of a new born baby when still no synapses have been developed. We are dealing with an embryo of complex network interrelationships. It is fascinating to think that a structure so rachitic in principle, can with time convert into an incredibly complicated network, which we are accustomed to see. Nevertheless, everything is already arranged from the beginning to commence the connections. Thinking about this photograph, we realised that it represents precisely the aim of the project: to be a skeleton for a complex system of relations, and that the centre will end up being a tissue of relationships like the one of the nervous system.

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