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To identify what the author feels is missing in neuroscience: in order to understand something, you need to figure out how to describe two things about it (1) w
by mjfl 7y ago
To identify what the author feels is missing in neuroscience: in order to understand something, you need to figure out how to describe two things about it (1) what its state is at any point in time, and (2) how that state evolves in time. Connectomics gives you the beginnings to solve (1), but it doesn't go the whole way. There's a fundamental misunderstanding that you can collect exabytes of data and glean understanding from it just because how much you had to sweat getting the storage and collecting it. That's not how it works, it needs to have structure too. I wish more biologists / neuroscientists understood this.
- meowface 7y agoI think they understand this. This is demonstrated by there being little real understanding of ~300 neuron worm connectomes. The point of the article is discussing how mapping the full human connectome is only going to be a small next step towards understanding what's actually going on. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing.