New results! Similar destabilization of neural dynamics under different general anesthetics Different anesthetics induce unconsciousness through distinct mechanisms, but cortical destabilization may be their common effect. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

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Efficient coding theories often implicitly or explicitly assume slow changes in tuning (e.g., through synaptic plasticity). Arthur Prat-Carrabin has collected psychophysical data showing that it can be fast, and this can be explained by a gain-adaptive RNN: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

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If peer review goes AI then we may as well shut down peer review.

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lol... That's fair, but honestly, I think we're closing in on it. In the past 10 years the field has gone from having a series of fragmented models that explain different functions, to a single, coherent, functional account that explains the vast majority of the systems-level data we have.

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