The philosophical ramifications are interesting. > > > > What I get out of the article is the independence of the neuron must be the contributing factor to the amazing plasticity of the brain > > The key factor is that we can model the brain's construction via a random process. You can get what you want out of it, but if we can predict whether two neurons will be connected by a random roll of the dice--and we can now--that means that something as complex as the brain *can* be constructed via random processes.-Fascinating, but the parallelism does not tell us why our big brain developed. It does tell us that an algorithm may have been used or applied in the process.