Processes, not things!

Elusive Cures
Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders —and How We Can Change That

Cool & Bold refocusing rethinking by @NicoleCRust

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures

#weekendreading #NeuroBooks #neurodon #neuroscience #philosophyofneuroscience #neurophilosophy #systemsneuroscience

FIGURE 16: A framework for thinking about the brain as a complex adaptive system.

Via @deevybee review of nowadays much needed didactical #scicomm book

» provides practical tools for verifying the statistical consistency of published research.

It's available as a free ebook, making it accessible to the scientific community.
...
made the subject highly approachable. «

An Introduction to Forensic #Metascience

by @jamesheathers

https://goodscience.substack.com/p/book-review-an-introduction-to-forensic

• Knuth #LiterateProgramming approach

• 'It says in mice' in pg 45 2 same mice

• Didn't expect @sTeamTraen AI critique!

#reading #ML
Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning

Edited By @drcaberry
Brandeis Hill Marshall

„We dedicate this work to the diverse voices in #AI who work tirelessly to call out bias and work to mitigate it and advocate for #EthicalAI every day.
Some of the trailblazers doing the work are
@ruha9
@timnitGebru
@cfiesler
Joy Buolamwini
@ruchowdh
@safiyanoble
We also dedicate this work to the future engineers, scientists, and sociologists who will use it to inspire them to join the charge.“

HT x this cool one:

» There are also challenges with the analytical and computational methods employed to detect ensembles.
...
Perhaps inspiration and methods could be drawn from other fields where emergent properties have been studied and modeled,
...
essentially all knowledge gathered about ensembles stems from experimental animal preparations, with an almost complete ignorance of how these mechanisms play out in the human brain. «
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.008

ps: forgot manifolds? subspace? ea?

From:
» what we called 'standard hypothesis'

..

Emotional stimuli are process initially, via a dedicated modular system that operates rapidly, automatically, in the sense of without attention, and largely independently of conscious awareness, and that defects..

..so this is not just a curiosity for researchers in the lab, it has enormous impact in in society.. «

To:
#heterarchy

A cool #neurolecture by @PessoaBrain
https://youtu.be/1fqM5FGQJdQ
#neuroscience
#neurobuzz
#systemsneuroscience

» #Neuroscientists will need to open up to and embrace the uncomfortable possibility that the human #brain is a biological system that goes beyond what human intelligence alone can fully grasp without the assistance of AI tools applied to #bigdata «
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.016

#AI expert authors seem not aware that almost all #neuroscience #labs are already publishing research employing #ML some even employing #LLMs

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then wrote a genuine BOX 1
Limitations of current LLM tools

#neurobuzz

What #TheLoneBanana Problem reveals about the Nature of #GenerativeAI

appears equally difficult or impossible to create a single grape or a single spear of asparagus

we propose to view generative #AIs as #StyleEngines
that encode very #AlienRepresentations of
the world, challenged by traditional expectations of accuracy & veracity,
but excelling at novel kinds
of creativity,
as they make available all kinds of aspects of the world as styles

https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2023/86

og https://www.digital-science.com/tldr/article/the-lone-banana-problem-or-the-new-programming-speaking-ai/

» But to what extent & at what scales
brain dynamics & function depend on the specific details of their nodes & edges

&, on the other hand,

to what extent
simple network structure retains sufficient information to account for brain structure, dynamics, & function

are not yet totally clear questions «

Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.12.006

#complexsystems
#neurodon
#neurobuzz
#systemsneuroscience
#compneuro

HT subscribe:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius/111744238092534983

» AI does not exist !

There's no decision-making process !
It's just identifying #patterns !
..
But also they just spit out #lies !

#AI does not tell the #truth !
There's no #fidelity !
..
AI is built on #datasets that are biased !

As a result the #decisions made by #AI are #biased !

Therefore it is #unethical to use AI to make decisions !

You need an expert checking the decision !

It is a #tool you can use,
but it should not be used by itself ! «

@acollierastro

https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?t=1750s

» Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain «

― Santiago Ramón y Cajal

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-scientist-who-drew-brains-and-then-a-nobel-prize

#neuroscience #cajal #botd #historyOfScience #neurodon
#cajalDay #RamonyCajal
#cognitiveNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfMind
#SystemsNeuroscience
@neuroscience @cognition