Photographs from the Institute on Intelligent Systems, sponsored by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, taken at the Friday Harbor Labs, 21-22 August 1998.

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This 'tree' is really a pyramidal neuron of cerebral cortex.  The axon exiting at bottom goes long distances, eventually splitting up into 10,000 small branchlets to make synapses with other brain cells.
William H. Calvin and Katherine Graubard




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