4 ms·
Geometrical Thinking Offers a Window into Computation
- astrange 6y agoI'm not seeing an article here, just an offer to sign up to an email newsletter.
- andyxor 6y agohttps://archive.is/xH1II https://archive.is/xH1II
- peebz 6y agoInteresting that Mark Churchland is the son of the 'neurophilosophers' Patricia and Paul Churchland. I'm not sure about Patricia but Paul was (maybe still is) a strong advocate of eliminative materialism who also discussed geometric representations of mental representation as points in a multidimensional state space over 20 years ago.
- cee_el123 6y agoseems to me - what's described here probably is this : here is evidence that localisation applies well even at the level of small neural groups
- xtiansimon 6y ago> "A clustered representation ... Sherry Choi/adapted from Bernardi et al. 2020" Why do the authors (of any scientific papers) use a 3-D representation for their diagram? Why are the axis not labeled? It is unclear to me the same diagram could not be constructed in 2-D. Kind'a fluffy.
- seesawtron 6y agoI think it is not the original figure from the paper but a sketch adapted for general audience? The publishers are now starting to ask scientists to engage audience by "simplified" plots/sketches and keep detailed accurate plots for close community.
- xtiansimon 6y ago> "The publishers are now...'simplified' plots/sketches.." In fact simplified plots are not new, but rather a common ignorance. On the flip side the "close community" frequently demonstrates their own conceit in their diagrams by frequently failing to go just a small distance more to label their axis. /RANT
- bick_nyers 6y agoIf I went the academic path as opposed to industry I was strongly considering focusing on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry
- dilawar 6y agoInteresting work. I was wondering if you can tell the state of brain activities by looking at these geometric patterns?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]