re: structure, yes, it is made of cortical columns, and yes there’s some global wiring, nobody’s been doubting that.
I created a new topic for that . The issue with attributing brain functionality to evolution is the immense difficulty of coding any specific wiring in the DNA, especially in mammals. Insects can do it—going through several generations in a year, and having the genome that controls the brain down to individual neurons. Mammals aren’t structured like this, and live much too long.
re: structure, yes, it is made of cortical columns, and yes there’s some global wiring, nobody’s been doubting that.
I created a new topic for that . The issue with attributing brain functionality to evolution is the immense difficulty of coding any specific wiring in the DNA, especially in mammals. Insects can do it—going through several generations in a year, and having the genome that controls the brain down to individual neurons. Mammals aren’t structured like this, and live much too long.