Are you ready to question your beliefs about hippocampus and cortex? See @JieyuZheng3 and Rogério Guimarães at #CCN2024.

Why is reality so slow? Why can we only have one thought at a time? Why do we need so many neurons? Will Elon Musk's Neuralink really speed up his cognition? For answers and more questions check out our new review: "The Unbearable Slowness of Being". arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

This paper seems to be getting read, thank you! As @JieyuZheng3 says, we're very interested in questions/comments/critiques. Maybe using this new discussion platform: alphaxiv.org/abs/2408.10234.

Horace Barlow, by all accounts, was thinking about 30 years ahead of his time. Here is a transcript of the opening keynote I gave at a symposium honoring Horace's scientific legacy: markusmeister.com/2024/12/14/hor….

"[It’s] the largest unexplained number in brain science. I feel like neuroscience should pay more attention to it ..." said Marcus Meister when Claudia López Lloreda sat down with him and Jieyu Zheng for a Q&A about the brain's information-processing rate. thetransmitter.org/computational-…