Crossword-Solution: SYNAPTIC
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SYNAPTIC (5)
Then all at once he felt charged as if by a synaptic tingle, a stirring in his fingertip that shot up to his brain.
The Central Synaptic Computation Receptor and Transmitter System had ended all such negative thinking.
But in recent weeks--I tell you this in strictest confidence, understand!--in recent weeks it's been a rather ticklish thing to get total synaptic clearance." * * * * * Synaptics? Beardsley began thinking back to the Crime-Central "Required Annual Basic." The Mechanical had never been his strong point.
And the spongy centers of synaptic cell-clusters horrified him, recalling too vividly to mind what he knew of the physical human brain.
Transferrals are okay, so I want to try it with a stepped-up synaptic check; that'll alleviate any overload without drain on the minor selective, which is better than setting up complete new correlation-grams." It was too much for Mandleco.
Quotes with SYNAPTIC (3)
Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our d…
The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron itself, but rather an assembly of neurons, which I estimate to number around a hundred. The wiring and synaptic strengths within each unit are relatively stable and determined genetically — that is the organization within each pattern recognition module is determined by genetic design. Learning takes place in the creation of connections between these …
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also — more so — for beauty.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).