Also apologies for illustrating the points in terms of areas A and B as opposed to A,B,C,D,E etc and the dense pattern of areal interconnections. Being old, I was trained to do simple experiments and to simplify. That may still work for nematode worms or fruit flies, but not for mammals.

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Preach!

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a lot of good thoughts in here! Thanks Bence. "With the right math, we can parse the dynamics and recover a surprising amount of modularity. Rotations, attractors and low-dimensional manifolds become our new objects of description."

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Great article on understanding complex behavior! Having gone the opposite direction (rodents→songbirds), I feel spoiled by the level of mechanistic detail we can uncover I agree w/ the approaches Bence outlines, and would add that insight from tractable systems can travel...

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Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein

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