Rat brains provide even more evidence our brains operate near tipping point

But over the last decade, evidence has been mounting that the brain as a system functions much like water approaching the critical point of a phase transition. Much like the pile of sand in an hourglass, he proposed that the brain teeters at that same critical point, a balance achieved by avalanches of electrical activity between neurons at all size scales. In other words, “The transition is between unsynchronized and synchronized firing, this transition point is indeed critical, and the brain hovers around it,” said Beggs, who was not involved with the experiments.

Source: arstechnica.com