The Geometry Of Oblivion

• Main Author: Luís Cera
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2011-05-01
• Series: Coolabah
• Subjects: Sculpture
• Online Access: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15673/18788

Our brain is very complex yet it is really very simple: elementary, very elementary strengths have configured it. A team of neuroanatomists (Nails Sts. Hilgetag and Helen Barbas, "Morphology of the Brain", Research and science, April 2009) has shown that the rough landscapes of the bypasses of the cerebral crust are formed by the forces of tension which are also responsible for the folds; such as enfolding within the skull grey matter that would occupy a frying pan big enough for a dozen people. Growth solves it: the neurons issue axons that to the the edges and keep on folding the crust, like inflating a balloon containing threads that clamp multiple points of its surface. The interesting thing is that these clamps are responsible for what we do and what we can do: they connect distant areas and while they permit creativity they limit what can and cannot be thought areas and are those that while they give creativity they limit the that is been able or cannot think, what we can and cannot feel. The topogenesis is elementary even if the result is so unlimitedly complex. It is beautiful and fascinating that our complexity is, in fact, so simple.