@pgleeson You have been recognized for your interest and contributions in neurosciences by your contributions related to the OpenWorm project.
Feel free to share with me any other interesting paper/blog/idea you find as I have the same interest towards understading how neuronal circuits actually works (how can they not be chaotic, how are they stable regarding input variance (cf fuzzing, single pixel attacks), how do they encode meaningful signals/actions, how do they achieve such absurd resource efficiency (they operate on the frequency of a few hertz, that is ridiculous.. and yet god-like in faculties), how do they allow continual learning without catastrophic forgetting, what would be important differences between neurons circuits and spiking neural networks? how are neurons initialized at birth? do glial cells have a role in signal processing (some release neurotransitters) how can extrasynaptic GABA represent 30 % of neurons and yet not be chaotic? I understand that GABA releases are topologically stategically located but that doesn't explain the strong stability of brains. To what degree is there variance between c.elegans brains? what are the lowest handing fruit, most impactful tests/investigations to do ? E.g the neurpal paper mentions a disctint neuronal circuit that is linked to the rest of the brain by a single neuron (!), this neurons seems therefore very testable.
The world needs more people like you.
@pgleeson You have been recognized for your interest and contributions in neurosciences by your contributions related to the OpenWorm project.
Feel free to share with me any other interesting paper/blog/idea you find as I have the same interest towards understading how neuronal circuits actually works (how can they not be chaotic, how are they stable regarding input variance (cf fuzzing, single pixel attacks), how do they encode meaningful signals/actions, how do they achieve such absurd resource efficiency (they operate on the frequency of a few hertz, that is ridiculous.. and yet god-like in faculties), how do they allow continual learning without catastrophic forgetting, what would be important differences between neurons circuits and spiking neural networks? how are neurons initialized at birth? do glial cells have a role in signal processing (some release neurotransitters) how can extrasynaptic GABA represent 30 % of neurons and yet not be chaotic? I understand that GABA releases are topologically stategically located but that doesn't explain the strong stability of brains. To what degree is there variance between c.elegans brains? what are the lowest handing fruit, most impactful tests/investigations to do ? E.g the neurpal paper mentions a disctint neuronal circuit that is linked to the rest of the brain by a single neuron (!), this neurons seems therefore very testable.
The world needs more people like you.