Two surveys carried out by UT Southwestern scientists shed a new understanding of how the brain ciphers time and place into remembrance. Lega inquired whether humans have time cells by using a recollection task that makes a strong command on time-related information. In other to carry this out, they got some participants to test this experiment by doing “free recall” tasks that required reading a list containing 12 words for 30 seconds and doing a short analytical problem to confuse them. Afterward, the scientists asked these individuals to think of the words in respect to the time it was first read. This task essentially involved linking each word with a segment of time.
The results they found were amazing. They discovered a large population of time cells and interestingly, the firing of these cells projected the extent to which humans were able to link words together.
On the likelihood of grid power acting like these brain cells. We see lots of circumstances in Nigeria where power is disrupted at that minute you need it. Some people have shared their bitter-sweet experiences in relation to this occurrence. Some of the pleasant experiences occur when these guys leave us with the light past our expectation and you hear comments like “shh!! don’t shout about the light before they will hear and take it”… or “Hmm…the way we have light now, it’s clear they will not provide us with electricity for some days”. All these indirectly support the findings that grid power has a brain and knows just when to disrupt the power supply.
Thankfully, however, with the creation of serval distribution companies (DisCos) in Nigeria, we see some positive changes in terms of electricity supply to several localities, despite the fact that there are still power outages.