Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings

(quantamagazine.org)

24 points | by ibobev 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • ElijahLynn 1 minute ago
    Wow!!

    “The work coming out is moving this from ‘Are they relevant?’ to ‘This is a major motif of how the cortex processes information,’” said Earl K. Miller(opens a new tab), a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • vatsachak 15 minutes ago
    I wonder what the "waves" in LLMs are; The global firing patterns that can help us interpret what the weights are doing en-masse
  • pessimizer 9 minutes ago
    This is what Walter J. Freeman III* spent his career working on, surprised he wasn't mentioned. I used to be very obsessed with him.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_III

    Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of underlying many-body field dynamics, https://arxiv.org/html/q-bio/0511037

    https://web.archive.org/web/20070609235302/http://sulcus.ber...

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    [*] No, not that guy; the son of that guy.

    Edit: I've never seen a wikipedia page with so many typos.

  • dadjoker 1 minute ago
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