Not sure about the genes affecting connectivity, but I can tell you that neurons in both chimpanzees and humans connect to wayyy more than 7 neurons. Like orders of magnitude more. In the Prefrontal Cortex, pyramidal neurons can have upwards of 30,000 excitatory inputs alone
Literature isn’t logic, but if you want to describe literature rigorously you will be using a logical system. All science is based on logic.
The scientific method is literally just proving/disproving a logical implication (the hypothesis) using axioms (model assumptions and evidence) to construct a proof (research paper).
Anyway, we’re off from your original statement. You were wondering if math counts as a science. Anything rigorously studied is science.Even in math, hypotheses are formed and tested and occasionally proven wrong.
Non-euclidean space, irrational numbers, Gödels incompleteness theorems, Tarski’s undefinability problem, etc. are all examples of when widely accepted scientific models of sets or geometry or logic etc. were tested and eventually disproven, leading to the creation of new models. That is science.
That’s called Class Logic
(It’s math)
The symbols/notations were invented and axioms are arguably arbitrarily chosen, but the consequences of those axioms are undeniably discovered not invented
You’re heading deeper into the philosophy/study of knowledge which is called Epistemology.
What I think you’re trying to say is you think there’s a divide between sciences which deal with making models about “reality” and testing them versus the sciences like logic and abstract mathematics which constructively discover truth by deriving it from previous truths (axioms/theorems).
However, in a very general sense, any logic whatsoever—written symbolically or in natural language—is mathematics. Making the assumption “matter/energy is not created nor destroyed” and then using that assumption (axiom) to derive “momentum must be conserved in a collision” is mathematics just as much as it is physics. Any time you build ideas on/using a “scientific model” you are using logic/mathematics.
Math is quite literally the most empirical science that exists
Empirical: “Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment.”
Ever heard math isn’t invented it’s discovered? Math isn’t about trying to make something new, it’s about trying to make things that were already there obvious.
Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge”
Dendrites are the inputs; axons are the outputs. Both tend to branch and each dendrite has many “spines” which form the input synapses.
But yes, that sounds more likely since it is theorized that the basal dendrites in the prefrontal cortex being larger and more complex than others is what allows them to integrate larger amounts of information and could correlate with intelligence.