Some good points here, but anyone calling for a "metaphor-free theory" doesn't understand what a theory is https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
This was actually really infuriating to read.
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Replying to @gravity_levity
yeah, it's especially bad because he gets a few things slightly right but then most of everything else completely wrong
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @gravity_levity
"several scientists [say] that specific memories are somehow stored in individual neurons" wut
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Replying to @allgebrah
Maybe these things http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/218730-the-more-we-learn-about-memory-the-weirder-it-gets …
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Replying to @Plinz
that seems to be more about a certain class of neurons and less about 1:1 correspondence between specific neurons and memories?
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Replying to @allgebrah
there is a link in the article to another one talking about specific neurons
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Replying to @Plinz
yes, but that one still talked about a group of neurons also they didn't show these were the only neurons encoding that memory
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i am also not sure that individual neurons code for memories, but the text seems to make a claim that they possibly do
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