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2023-09-12 17:59 UTC
@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social @knutson_brain@sfba.social @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social @awaisaftab@mastodon.social @summerfieldlab@qoto.org @Neurograce@mastodon.online @eikofried@mastodon.online
Thanks for the clarification! To clarify a bit on my own, my reply was more of a call-back joke to the OG days on Twitter (per @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social ).
But, I take your point well, and agree, it is important for people to realise that brains don't do sequential, discrete, passive processing of a stream of inputs using a step-by-step program. And so, in that sense, it's a metaphor (and a poor one).
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@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org 2023-09-12 18:01
@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social @knutson_brain@sfba.social @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social @awaisaftab@mastodon.social @summerfieldlab@qoto.org @Neurograce@mastodon.online @eikofried@mastodon.online Also, I really like your point that it helps people to get people out of thinking that things like "attention" and "decision making" are discrete pieces of a program in our heads. 🙂