Single Idea 23226

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain]

Full Idea

Researchers have recently described a single inhibitory neuron in a region called the visual thalamus of the mouse - it has 862 input synapses and 626 output synapses.

Gist of Idea

There is a single mouse neuron which has 862 inputs and 626 outputs

Source

Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain [2020], 11)

Book Reference

Cobb,Matthew: 'The Idea of the Brain' [Penguin 2020], p.248


A Reaction

This is the kind of fact which philosophers of mind must be aware of when offering accounts of thought which are in danger of being simplistic.