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There are patterns that repeat when nature speaks in a quiet voice.
The universe is a network. Galaxies are not randomly distributed but connected by invisible filaments of dark matter linking giant clusters like neurons. This cosmic web, known as the large-scale structure of the universe, has been reconstructed through supercomputer simulations led by institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Durham University, within projects like Illustris and the Millennium Simulation.
This architecture attracted the interest of astrophysicist Franco Vazza (University of Bologna) and neurosurgeon Alberto Feletti (University of Verona), who in 2020 compared the structure of the observable cosmos with that of the human cerebral cortex. The study, published in Frontiers in Physics, analysed whether two networks so different in scale and function might share similar organisational patterns.
They used:
Cosmological simulations of about one billion cubic light-years.
Images of human cortical tissue of 1 mm³ (~70,000 neurons) obtained through microscopy.
Techniques such as multifractal analysis, calculation of the energy spectral density E(k)∼kⁿ, and topological measurements were applied. The spectral behaviour followed a power law with a nearly identical exponent:
n ≈ −1.5
Despite the 27 orders of magnitude separating them, the brain and the universe show hierarchical, interconnected, and efficient structures for transmitting information.
Strengths: rigorous scientific method, solid data, multidisciplinary approach.
Limitations: correlation does not imply causation, and excessive analogies should be avoided.
Yet the message remains: nature tends toward efficient forms of organisation. Perhaps the universe does not think, but it structures itself as if it were capable of remembering.
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