Tony Zador this was very inspiring work, showing proof of the principle: 'reliable circuit function from unreliable components'.

The open question for me is whether and how such reliability can emerge in other circuit coding regimes. Synchrony is one mechanism but likely not the only one

On the understanding and acceptance of *enabling* constraints:

“Reasons are constraints. […] Selfhood entails constraints: they are what selves are made of.”
Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell

Somehow echoing Context Changes Everything by Alicia Juarrero

Studies like this consistently find extremely high heritability of autism. Will this overwhelming evidence that it is a *genetic condition* receive any coverage? Of course not, because we're distracted by microbiome nonsense...

🚨 neoSSL: Our story on how information flow in neocortical layers is perfectly placed for self-supervised learning (SSL) is now on bioRxiv
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

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Even Franz Kafka would be like, 'oh come on, that's a bit much, isn't it?'

The idea of a University siccing cops on a student, arresting them, and then trying to wrap them in a warm bubble of You Are So Valid therapy-speak is just...beyond surreal.

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.”

Shakespeare

This is fkn brilliant 🔊🔊🔊
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I hear lots of people in the guru sphere talking about research methodology and analysis who a) have never conducted a study, b) do not know how to interpret a regression table, and c) would not recognise the acronym OSF. It’s wild out there.

What’s going on in the mind of a bee? Phenomenal consciousness at the very minimum, according to a new declaration on animal consciousness. quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…

Thanks to our speakers and participants of our Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience: Origins of Order in Bhevaiour! We had three days of intense discussion, and there are new plans for the future to come!

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Lastly... totally agree. Wish there was more of this. How can you remotely 'understand' an intellectual without at least attempting to grapple seriously with how they spent the majority of their waking hours?

Just finished 'Mind at Play' by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman A long overdue read on the founder of information theory. Some of my highlights...

Gentle reminder: the deadline for ispsm abstract submissions is approaching (April 30th)! 🔥

Kevin Mitchell Arkadiusz Synowczyk 📖 Recommended reading:
💠 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will' by Kevin Mitchell
💠 An Interview with Kevin J. Mitchell by Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
💠 'How Life Evolved the Power to Choose' by Kevin Mitchell

'Content' is one of the most bizarre terms used by analytic philosophers looking at neuroscience. They seem to think that neuroscience notions of representation imply a containment metaphor... but I can't imagine most of us who use 'representation' have ever thought this way.

Kevin Mitchell Getting closer, but the 'simply' does a lot of work here. So does 'relational', 'contextual', etc.
Fleshing those notions out in rigorous explicit detail is what's required to provide a naturalistic explanation for meaning, imo. Really great to follow the development!

Don't make me tap the sign

The discovery of mass graves in Gaza highlights urgent need to grant access to independent human rights investigators.

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Cian O'Donnell Rishikesh Narayanan Timothy O'Leary peter sterling BTW, if i remembercorrectly, a single synapse has ~several dozen of AMPARs, so it will be noisy even with a pure simulation with identical glutamate release, provided we include ion channel stochasticy.
And it's not enough to remove the variance via central limit theorem