This sets off my BS detector. The approach is to make a "thought experiment" about how neural computation might work mathematically, then look for evidence tha

This sets off my BS detector. The approach is to make a "thought experiment" about how neural computation might work mathematically, then look for evidence that the guess is correct. Their thought experiment makes them guess powers of 2 are special, that they should expect to see organization at sizes 1,3,7,15. But when they analyze data, I don't see any comparison saying that 7 is really more prevalent than 6 or 8, or 15 is more prevalent than 14 or 16. Indeed 15 seems to be the largest they looked at. The whole numerology theory driving the headline looks like unlikely, unsupported nonsense to me!