Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain
by C.R. Gallistel
Oct 25, 2015
4 minutes
Most neuroscientists believe that the brain learns by rewiring itself—by changing the strength of connections between brain cells, or neurons. But experimental results published last year, from a lab at Lund University in Sweden, hint that we need to change our approach. They suggest the brain learns in a way more analogous to that of a computer: It encodes information into molecules inside neurons and reads out that information for use in computational operations.
With a computer scientist, Adam King, I co-authored a book, We argued that well-established results in cognitive science and computer science imply that computation in the brain must resemble computation in a computer in
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