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TODAY: 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀?Check time difference given US spring time already. Today: 12pm US, eastern time Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon with Anneli Jefferson and...
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Side story: When I did my PhD a zillion years ago (in computational neuroscience) there was this young professor, Evan Thompson, who let me audit his philosophy class. He was even open to writing a...
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The Blind SpotLet's understand science as a human experience. Started chapter 2, can't wait to read more!It's about science in general but quite relevant to #neuroscience
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Here's the vision / Grand Plan for neuroscience my colleagues:https://www.nicolerust.com/grandplan#neuroscience
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀?Interacting/interdependent elements, nonlinearities, feedback, distributed organization, emergence, autonomy, plasticity?Good review of past...
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Mind vs. brain: what are good introductory readings (high school) for the tendency to separate mind and brain. For example, one often hears statements like "the brain made me do it" etc. Of course the...
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Missed "Mechanism and Neuroscience" by Lauren Ross and Dani Bassett ??Great discussion of these key questions in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.Check out the link here!...
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𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲Join the discussion tomorrow!Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon with @ProfLaurenRoss and @DaniSBassettFeb 2 at noon (eastern USA)...
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Multilevel brain explanations"Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an...
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𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲!Join us at Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon to hear and discuss the recent paper by Lauren Ross and Dani Bassett.Can we make progress on this front? Don't miss it!Feb 2 at...
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Is it possible to increase the preview in our instance? I'm not sure what determines how much gets shown but sometimes is just a few lines and then "show more".I mean, assuming other people feel he...
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Systems neuroscience in trouble??Some harsh words about just-so stories in systems neuroscience in general and network neuroscience in particular.I'm not sure about the proposed solutions, but...
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Another one on neuroscience collegiality at Masto...When people engage with the science itself, people are often cut-throat on that X place. Kind of what I imagine being faculty at a place like MIT...
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Can we control an entire distributed circuit in the brain? If not now, when?Neurotechniques can do amazing things. One can target a population in region A to track specific projections to region B, and...
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Non-determinism in classical (and quantum) physicsVery interesting talk by Nicolas Gisin suggesting that mathematical real numbers are really "random" (given they require infinite bits to be...
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What explains the rich exchange of information here on Masto? It's really a great community.It's a deafening silence over at Bluesky... And the other place is not for many people for obvious...
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀Today! Join presentation with Jaan Aru followed by discussion of the paper below in the Neuroscience & Philosophy SalonNov 22, 12:30pm (US...
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Is mental activity just neural activity?Imo an interesting counter is in terms of a reductio argument. Once we understand the action of brain cells we have to dig further down to understand the action...
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How does it all work together in the brain?Are there proposals of how multiple functional-connectional systems work together? Not just individual systems, but jointly. Eg of individual systems: basal...
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