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Beautifully reminiscent of neural networks, the rhizome, and Indra's net.
Thread and tapestry, part 1 of n. https://twitter.com/neurosocialself/status/1251046838968258563
Thread and tapestry, part 1 of n. https://twitter.com/neurosocialself/status/1251046838968258563
Axons | Stem-like threads strung with myelinated beads along which outgoing impulses are conducted from a sending cell body. Messages undergo electrochemical conversion at the synapse. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1224759897582997504?s=20
Dendrites | Branching root-like extensions along which incoming impulses are transmitted to a receiving cell body. From the Greek term dendritēs, 'of or pertaining to a tree.' https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1250579817604345856?s=20
Cerebellum | Along with motor coordination, cerebellar systems may be involved in emotional reactivity. It functions largely outside the realm of conscious awareness. There are more neurons in the cerebellar cortex than in the rest of the brain combined. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1224772924445380608?s=20
"A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo."
Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateaus
Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateaus
"Young Pilgrim, to find the awakening you seek, turn your gaze inward now toward the landscapes of the mind."
Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1238524390188277768?s=20
Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1238524390188277768?s=20
"We form a rhizome with our viruses, or rather our viruses cause us to form a rhizome with other animals."
Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateaus
Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateaus
Natural neural networks are complex and distributed yet connected systems integral to learning, providing an efficient means of information processing. Artificial neural networks are a biologically-inspired programming paradigm utilized in machine learning, simulating the brain.
Forest of synthetic pyramidal dendrites grown using Cajal's laws of neuronal branching.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000877
One rule to grow them all: A general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000877
One rule to grow them all: A general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application.
Whether natural or artificial, neural networks are multi-dimensional webs of communication, stitching together patches of data to enable pattern recognition. Their behavior is accounted for by rhizomatics, a philosophical approach to organized knowledge complexity.
The rhizome is a multiplicity, a non-linear network of nodes. Sharing common roots underground, rhizomatic offshoots emerge above soil as seemingly distinct sprouts. From the Greek term rhízōma, 'mass of roots.'
Rhizomes are characterized by underground internodes, regions of the buried stem between individual nodes. Rhizomatic plants send out roots from node bottoms and generate new shoots from node tops.
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra and its commentaries via the Huayan school of Buddhism paint a rhizomatic image of interpenetration, a macrocosmic reflection of the microcosmic realm and vice versa. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1228751924943392768?s=20
The full title "Mahāvaipulya Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra" refers to a meditative manifestation of infinite integration on all scales. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1209700357720330243?s=20
Like an endless set of Russian nesting dolls, but completely transcending spatiotemporal norms, realms upon realms are contained within each other. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1245782553224601601?s=20
Microcosm encompasses macrocosm as much as macrocosm encompasses microcosm. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1250218722679083008?s=20
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra chronicles the visionary experiences of contemplatives as they encounter intricacies in the interstices and interwebbing of Indra's net, an infinitely vast, fractal, cosmic tapestry and map of the mind. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1245353571953987585?s=20
Reminiscent of patterns in Indra's net, Diffusion Tensor Imaging uses magnetic resonance to track the flow of water in tissue. Providing maps of neural pathways, it measures brain network connectivity among white matter microstructures and axon tracts.
Network integration allows for seamless transition between fragmented and defragmented states.
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1227743093685805056?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1227743093685805056?s=20
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra depicts meditation among the infinite variety of contemplative undertakings, which are inextricably embodied practices.
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1221465479941775360?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1221465479941775360?s=20
Across all scales, the meditator cycles between paradoxical psychosomatic states.
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1249418096521015296?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1249418096521015296?s=20
In the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, meditation functions as mediation between the macrocosmic and microcosmic.
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1242902928475611136?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1242902928475611136?s=20
Integrated embodiment through contemplative practice enables the manifestation of myriad phenomena in the same way that a rainbow is created by light refracted through a prism.
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1208605774475223040?s=20
https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1208605774475223040?s=20
