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The loneliest neuron | Princeton University Press

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There it lives, the loneliest neuron. The neuron that lies furthest from the outside world. Furthest from the inputs from your senses; furthest from the outputs to your muscles.

Share The Spike Available in 5 editions View Book There it lives, the loneliest neuron. The neuron that lies furthest from the outside world. Furthest from the inputs from your senses; furthest from the outputs to your muscles. It will never know the taste of a cold beer, the smell of a rose, the deep red of a postbox, the touch of a baby’s hand. It will never run, dance, leap, or swim. But it will receive distant echoes of all these things. It will put them together to make a picture of the world for you. The loneliest neurons know all. Yet no part of the brain exists in isolation from the re

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