Quite. In fact, the data explicitly disproves any kind of grandmother cells. Consider for a moment the “Jennifer Anniston cells” that were reported in the media several years ago:
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sorry I've lost track here. what are you trying to argue
@GaryMarcus? That there exist neurons in IT cortex that respond solely to one stimulus and no others (and maybe also that no other neurons in that area respond to that stimulus)?
they certainly are consistent w localist schemes that are standard in neural nets. more broadly: I wrote an article w Christof Koch: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/528131/cracking-the-brains-codes/ … plural in the title is key. i suspect brain uses many codes some local (perhaps groups of neurons); some distributed.
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can you say *precisely* what you are claiming? This is where I'm confused
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not sure what you are asking. i am not saying that Aniston neurons never fire to anything but Aniston, but that they behave like localist WTA nodes. and that we can’t possibly rule out the existence of such things, based on very sparse data & poor understanding of neurosci
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