#mazviitachirimuuta — Public Fediverse posts

@mrcompletely

Check #TheBrainAbstracted
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History

by #MazviitaChirimuuta

Also check her 4 short video collab w @Brains

https://youtu.be/p_zkx2M6YYw?si=-foXerDfEndhYXe2

@NicoleCRust @caranha @fcampelo

Yeah! related post I read inline:
https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/112581236817436896

Related readings from papers/books comes to mind.. ...yet currently my top fav:
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/112180184417339856

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta

ps: didn't know about F Campelo & C Aranha, Tx!

@anandphilipc @skarthik

Fav way of saying this:

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «
1 Introduction, Footnote 6

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

New #braininspired
#MazviitaChirimuuta
#TheBrainAbstracted
#Simplification in the #History & #Philosophy of #Neuroscience
» when we try to understand something complex, like the brain, using models, and math, and analogies, for example - we should keep in mind these are all ways of simplifying and abstracting away details to give us something we actually can understand.
...
necessary to do the science and limit the interpretation we can claim from our results «
https://youtu.be/NwNHW4otoJQ
#neurobuzz

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

» Although the stated aim of the book is not to reform #neuroscience or offer advice to #neuroscientists
but rather to interpret their work,
I have not always kept myself within the bounds of description of scientific practice.

The prescriptive voice—on the folly of overestimating our comprehension of nature in itself, in its full complexity—does frequently come out. «
#TheBrainAbstracted
by #MazviitaChirimuuta https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045/the-brain-abstracted/

#OpenAccess
#SystemsNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfNeuroscience

@dcm

#MazviitaChirimuuta book
#TheBrainAbstracted povides citations from cool authors in #neurodon #neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #PhilosophyOfNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfAI #philosophyofmind

@MatteoCarandini
@NancyKanwisher
@Neurograce
@garymarcus
@michelamassimi
@melaniemitchell
@Gualtiero
@kordinglab

@axoaxonic @sandervanbree

End of the Year 2023 Gift

Timely Surprise from
@Brains

What is #Explanation
in #Neuroscience ?

Quarteto 5-15m Lectures
by Dr #MazviitaChirimuuta

1
https://youtu.be/p_zkx2M6YYw
2
https://youtu.be/rd5Pl4UfIDA
3
https://youtu.be/CQmWyb2gn-U
4
https://youtu.be/zuj5Z8o_-5w

A Beginner's Guide To Neural Mechanisms
https://www.neuralmechanisms.org/explanation-in-neuroscience-chirimuuta.html

#complexsystems
#neurotheory
#mindbrain
#neurodon
#neurobuzz
#theoreticalneuroscience
#PhilosophyOfAI
#systemsneuroscience
#PhilosophyOfNeuroscience