/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10249825
oh yeah the whole body is necessarily hierarchical in terms of scale. cells, tissues, organs, body. The cortex is hierarchical both on scale and across its connections.

You would find the recent use of markov blanket in neuroscience interesting: how to define a living thing and how those things are nested in multicellular life like people. It may be a difficult concept though. And no im not a student.