Principles of abstract neuro-nonsense

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Meetings[edit | edit source]

8/23/2015[edit | edit source]

  1. Meta meeting

8/31/2015[edit | edit source]

  1. For next time: Anatomy of the cortex

Reading[edit | edit source]

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  1. The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Changizi
  2. Structures, Learning and Ergosystems, Gromov
  3. On Intelligence, Hawkins
  4. The Computer and the Brain, von Neumann
  5. 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience, Sejnowski et al.
  6. A Calculus of Ideas, Grenander
  7. Science, Psychoanalysis, and the Brain, Marom
  8. Circuits of the Mind, Valiant
  9. Principles of Brain Evolution, Striedter
  10. Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity, Valentino Braitenberg
  11. Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick (Athena: well, I was listening to Robert Sapolsky lectures (btw, they are great!) and this is one of the books he recommends for the course and he calls it "the most influential book in his thinking about science")

Principles[edit | edit source]

  1. Currently we are thinking about "constraints" as one meta-principle for organizing principles
  2. Possibly stating the obvious, but perhaps another good (though more vague) meta-principle is "questions"

Constraints[edit | edit source]

  • Energy usage
  • Wiring length
  • Sample complexity
  • Learnability
  • Evolutionary fitness (all constraints lumped into one?)
  • genetic encodability/compressibility
    • motifs, scale invariance increases compressibility
    • uri alon(?) (design principles of biological circuits)
    • paper about visual orientation maps + genetics
    • genes could encode logic; full pattern specified by logic + physical rules. offload info from dna to physical environment/laws
  • development
  • existing constraints: you build upon the existing structure without starting from scratch


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