Re: Center of Gravity of Brain

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:02

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neo wrote:

> Anybody knows centre of gravity of human brain? As the mass of
> neocortex is 76% of total mass of human brain, center of gravity of
> human brain should be somewhere in neocortex.

Reminds me of a question in V.I. Arnold's list of 100 problems:
to determine the centre of mass of a hemisphere in 10 dimensions.

Perhaps the problems are related ...

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