u/NeuronLab

This simulator is intended for someone who is interested in the operation of neurons but not in the details of the math behind them.

Description of the complexity of a neuron cell by Prof. Jeff Lichtman

Ionic Currents

\*\*\*"More likely, we will take experience itself as a fundamental feature of the world, alongside mass, charge,and space-time. If we take experience as fundamental, then we can go about the business of constructing a theory of experience."\*\*\*
D.J. Chalmers 1995

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Neuroscience has a pretty good idea of how long-term memories are created and stored in the brain (\[Donald Hebb\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald\\\_O.\\\_Hebb)'s Fire together/Wire together), but this process involves actual growth of interconnections in the brain and takes days to weeks to complete. Learning to play a passage on the piano is this type of learning.

Short-term or working memory is being studied, but there doesn't seem to be an agreement on the mechanical apparatus that does the work. Remembering a list of numbers read to you five minutes ago is an example of this type of learning.

I want to understand the processes that allow us to be aware of our surroundings in the tens of milliseconds time frame. No one seems to have an idea on this, or at least I haven't run across it yet. Needless to say - its complex. .

Along the way, I wanted to present what I have found in a format that is accessible to others like myself - interested in the subject but not expert in it. I decided publish my learning process as well in near real time and this web site is the result. It will be continuously updated as I work on the project.

\*\*\*"More likely, we will take experience itself as a fundamental feature of the world, alongside mass, charge,and space-time. If we take experience as fundamental, then we can go about the business of constructing a theory of experience."\*\*\*
D.J. Chalmers 1995

!\[img\](0u3pn7c1ckzg1)

Neuroscience has a pretty good idea of how long-term memories are created and stored in the brain (\[Donald Hebb\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald\\\_O.\\\_Hebb)'s Fire together/Wire together), but this process involves actual growth of interconnections in the brain and takes days to weeks to complete. Learning to play a passage on the piano is this type of learning.

Short-term or working memory is being studied, but there doesn't seem to be an agreement on the mechanical apparatus that does the work. Remembering a list of numbers read to you five minutes ago is an example of this type of learning.

I want to understand the processes that allow us to be aware of our surroundings in the tens of milliseconds time frame. No one seems to have an idea on this, or at least I haven't run across it yet. Needless to say - its complex. .

Along the way, I wanted to present what I have found in a format that is accessible to others like myself - interested in the subject but not expert in it. I decided publish my learning process as well in near real time and this web site is the result. It will be continuously updated as I work on the project.

Are there people on r/research that consider themselves Citizen Scientists?

They would be self-promoted, with no support from anyone except their own bank account.

They are people who are interested in a subject enough to study it closely with no expectations of rewards of any kind except for the satisfaction of learning for learning's sake.