Implications for Smarter Search?
January 20, 2011
Facebook is taking over your brain! Okay, that’s a lie, but the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that our brains work like a highly sophisticated social network.
Our brains are made up of neurons within the neocortex of the brain scientists have discovered a kind of “subnetwork” of very active neurons that process more information than “regular” neurons. It is the culmination of 40 years of research which has opened the door to another 40 years of research. Locker Gnome says:
“It’s (the neuron network) like Facebook. Most of your friends don’t post much — if at all. But, there is a small percentage of your friends on Facebook who update their status and page often. Those people are more likely to be connected to more friends…” Barth said.
It is precisely these connections that make it possible for the sharing of mass amounts of information between connections. While the neurons are sending out this information they are also receiving information from their extended networks that include other “highly” active neurons.
In the end it seems to work like the six degrees of separation. Every sixth neuron is going to know someone in your network! Pretty nifty stuff. So what happens if Facebook launches a search system based on urls its members provide and CMU’s insights?
Leslie Radcliff, January 20, 2011
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