on 08-Nov-2020 (Sun)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States

The GOP was founded in 1854

Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president

Under the leadership of Lincoln and a Republican Congress, slavery was banned in the United States in 1865

Democratic Party was founded around 1828 making it the world's oldest active political party.

transports more than 200 billion tonne-kilometers^[2] of cargo annually, which is less than 1%

there may be as many as 200,000 separate entry ports to a neuron, which means that up to 200,000 separate summands may be involved in determining the neuron's next action.

After a neuron fires, it needs a short recovery time before firing again; characteristically this is measured in milliseconds, so that a neuron may fire up to about a thousand times per second.

Earthworms have isomorphic brains! One could say, "There is only one earthworm."

David Hubel, speaking at a conference on communication with extraterrestrial intelligence: The number of nerve cells in an animal like a worm would be measured, I suppose, in the thousands. One very interesting thing is that we may point to a particular individual cell in a particular earthworm, and then identify the same cell, the corresponding cell in another earthworm of the same species.

One possible explanation could be that memories are coded locally, but over and over again in different areas of the cortex

Another explanation would be that memories can be reconstructed from dynamic processes spread over the whole brain, but can be triggered from local spots. This theory is based on the notion of modern telephone networks, where the routing of a long-distance call is not predictable in advance, for it is selected at the time the call is placed, and depends on the situation all over the whole country. Destroying any local part of the network would not block calls; it would just cause them to be routed around the damaged area. In this sense any call is potentially nonlocalizable.