Some of the research mentioned here has gotten more advanced, however, even recording individual neurons in conscious volunteers.
Any individual neuron has its receptive field on the skin.
Like a single Wikipedia participant, an individual neuron does not 'know' everything and is likely to make mistakes.
These complex interactions cannot yet be deduced from our understanding of individual neurons.
Another approach would be to study the firings of individual neurons while a person is trying to remember the phone number.
Each human being is an individual neuron, but unaware of his connection to the global organism as a whole.
If functioning brains think, then the individual neurons in them think.
The 1950s saw improvements in techniques for measuring the electric activity of individual neurons.
These properties are highly dependent on the brain area and the individual neuron being studied.
The cause of the changes is unknown, because the imaging process cannot see down to the level of individual neurons.