very interesting article, and intriguing conclusion towards the end, make me feel like knowing more > You don’t need to specify where every synapse is to get t

very interesting article, and intriguing conclusion towards the end, make me feel like knowing more > You don’t need to specify where every synapse is to get the machine to work right. You just need to specify roughly the numbers of different cell types, their relative positions, the other types of neurons they tend to connect to, etc. The job of building the brain is accomplished statistically, and, crucially, probabilistically. This is why there is lots of variation in brain structure and function even between monozygotic twins and why intrinsic developmental variation is such a crucial (and overlooked) source of differences in people’s psychology and behaviour (the subject of my book Innate).