If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?
2 days ago
- #neuroscience
- #biomagnetism
- #magnetoreception
- Magnetoreception is the ability of organisms to detect Earth's magnetic field, aiding in navigation.
- Various species, from bacteria to humans, exhibit magnetoreception through different biological mechanisms.
- Humans show EEG responses to magnetic field changes, indicating subconscious magnetoreception.
- Biomagnetism involves organisms producing magnetic fields, with humans generating detectable brain magnetic fields.
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) decodes brain activity from magnetic fields, enabling thought interpretation.
- The brain may use its own magnetic field as a global state signal, leveraging ferrimagnetic crystals.
- The locus coeruleus acts as a global modulator, influencing brain-wide activity via norepinephrine.
- Consciousness might emerge from the brain's compression of neural data into a unified experience.
- Air pollution introduces foreign magnetic particles into the brain, potentially disrupting natural magnetoreception and contributing to Alzheimer's disease.