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Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social
In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/claims-of-necessity-and-sufficiency-are-not-well-suited-for-the-study-of-complex-systems/
Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social
In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/claims-of-necessity-and-sufficiency-are-not-well-suited-for-the-study-of-complex-systems/
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064525000089
"Under a โthingโ approach, it makes sense to try to attach necessary and sufficient claims to behaviors. But under a โprocessโ approach, the focus would shift to building a model that recapitulates the dynamical neural system that gives rise to a behavior...
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By the way, Alex Gomez-Marin recently wrote a very similar article that you might find relevant: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57363-2_11
The point is that some words are misused at some point and gain another meaning over time, not they don't apply to complex systems. But I feel you after the recent debate on "functional connectivity".
I fully agree with some points about the meaningless claim of sufficiency of a brain region.
But there are necessary conditions under which we know if a system can be labeled as complex, I am a bit skeptical on sufficient ones. But again, many before us thought about that.