'(·) on Twitter: "@Plinz that seems to be more about a certain class of neurons and less about 1:1 correspondence between specific neurons and memories?" / Twitter

Some good points here, but anyone calling for a "metaphor-free theory" doesn't understand what a theory is aeon.co/essays/your-br

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This was actually really infuriating to read.

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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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"several scientists [say] that specific memories are somehow stored in individual neurons" wut

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Maybe these things extremetech.com/extreme/218730 @The_Lagrangian

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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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there is a link in the article to another one talking about specific neurons

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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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