I was recently interviewed about brain and city evolution by “Gladelic: A Quarterly Magazine of Intuitive Intelligence”. Here’s the beginning… Mark, why have you chosen to focus your study on the neocortex (its importance in the aspect of human evolution) how did you come to comparing cities and brains? Despite the brain’s complexity, our gray [...]
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Brain and Cities Interview
Posted in Brain, Cities shaped like brains, tagged Brain, city, Evolution, highways on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Press release on cities-shaped-like-brains
Posted in Cities shaped like brains, tagged Brain, changizi, city, Complexity, Evolution, highways, organization on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RPI’s press release on my and Marc Destefano’s city-brain paper just came out, written by science-writer Michael Mullaney. I have included a copy of it here as well… Ego City: Cities Organized Like Human Brains Credit: Rensselaer/Mark Changizi New study shows striking similarity in the evolution of brains, cities Cities are organized like brains, and [...]
My ScientificBlogging.com piece on cities and brains
Posted in Cities shaped like brains, tagged Brain, city, Complexity, cortex, Evolution, highways, organization, population on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following piece was written for ScientificBlogging.com on my new paper on the brain-like organization of cities… The brain-like organization of cities. (Or, is it, the city-like organization of brains?) Mark Changizi You may recall the “China Brain” thought experiment about consciousness, which goes something like this: if each person in China were to mimic the [...]
NEW PAPER on the brain-like organization of cities
Posted in Cities shaped like brains, tagged Brain, city, Complexity, cortex, Evolution, highways, organization, population on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Could the organization of our cities be smarter than we think? Here’s the abstract of my and Marc Destefano’s new paper in the journal Complexity… Cities and the mammalian neocortex may seem to have little in common, but each is approximately a surface with a network of conduits (roads and neurons, respectively) connecting its disparate [...]
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