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THE NEURAL QUANTUM. “The neural network can be described in terms of a quantum field, via identifying the different neurons with the different momentum modes of the field, while identifying the synaptic connections among the neurons with the interactions among the corresponding momentum modes.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM BRAINS. “Motivated by the potential similarities between the underlying mechanisms of the enhanced memory storage capacity in black holes and in brain networks, we construct an artificial quantum neural network based on gravity‐like synaptic connections and a symmetry structure that allows to describe the network in terms of geometry of a d‐dimensional space.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER BOLD IDEA. “Black Holes as Brains: Neural Networks with Area Law Entropy, by Gia Dvali.” https://lnkd.in/gdGJbxD View in LinkedIn

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ALTERNATIVE CONFIRMATION. “To confirm the involvement of the sweet taste receptor TAS1R2/TAS1R3 in D2O signaling we performed functional calcium mobilization assays using HEK 293 FlpIn T-Rex cells heterologously expressing both required TAS1R subunits as well as the chimeric G protein Gα15Gi343.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

BLIND MAN’S BUFF. “We’re playing Russian roulette, with a gun pointed at our children, with five bullets instead of just one in the chamber, and we go on pulling the trigger until it goes off. That’s basically what climate and nature breakdown are.” https://lnkd.in/gNpHt_C View in LinkedIn

COMBINATIONS. “Furthermore, D2O added to perceived sweetness of low concentrations of other sweeteners. In contrast, it did not elicit umami or bitter taste on its own, nor did it add to the umami taste perception of MSG. D2O did not add to the bitterness of quinine, and reduced the perceived bitterness of 0.1 mM quinine, in agreement with the known effect of bitterness suppression by sweet molecules.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

SURPRISE FINDING. “Being only isotopically different from H2O, in principle, D2O should be indistinguishable from H2O with regard to taste, namely it should have no taste of its own. Yet, we illustrate that human subjects consistently perceive D2O as being slightly sweet and significantly sweeter than H2O.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

PRIMARY EFFECT. “Here, we have studied the taste of D2O and H2O per se, not related to washing away of sweet taste inhibitors. Using psychophysics protocols, we show that humans differentiate between D2O and H2O based on taste alone. Importantly, by employing gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis we demonstrate that the sweet taste of deuterated water is not due to impurities.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn

SWEET TASTE INHIBITORS. “Sweet taste never ceases to surprise. Over a decade ago, water was shown to elicit sweet taste by rinsing away inhibitors of sweet taste receptors, both in human sensory experiments and in cell-based studies. This effect was explained in terms of a two-state model, where the receptor shifts to its activated state when released from inhibition by rinsing with water.” https://lnkd.in/dzPDm5w View in LinkedIn