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I hope people in the connectome camp take this to heart. I strongly doubt that modeling the connections of neurons will reveal the way the brain works. The mous
by daughart 13y ago
I hope people in the connectome camp take this to heart. I strongly doubt that modeling the connections of neurons will reveal the way the brain works. The mouse and rat brains are very similar in connectivity, but the behavior of the mouse and rat are quite different. One explanation is that the individual neurons are actually processing information differently, and so differences arise out of neuron functionality rather than connectivity. This research bolsters the argument that meaningful information processing occurs within individual neurons, and even at the sub-cellular level.
- PeterisP 13y agoIf this is the right way, then exactly the connectome camp will reveal the way the brain works - all their methodologies on how to extract connectomes from brain samples also (by necessity) reconstruct the whole dendritic tree structure through which the synapse is linked; so all parameters for these dentritic computations would also be included in their data.