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Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

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Re: Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

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I wish i wasnt on a nokia feature phone or id go into depth on the misunderstandings u state about memory, the hippocampus, and the utility of repetition as a mnemonic. Perhaps another memory researcher can in my place, as it has taken me a while to type this already on this old style phn keyboard

Example. Repetition least advanced mnemonic. Better: integration concepts and rich imagery. Neuro replay not likely analogy 4 repetition mneumonic. hippocampus fast learn, cortex slow learning, hip replay trains cortex to remember and cortex integrates with other learned

Your comments are almost impossible to understand. It might be nice if you found a computer to type them on.

Re: Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

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Often when I read papers on neuroscience, I find it difficult to dismiss an analogy. It feels much like we're trying to analyze how different models of computers work by giving them all some input and then trying to discern meaning from the circuitry that then activates in response. The problem with this is imagine I give you even the precise specs of a fairly basic computing system. You're going to be able to create…

> It feels much like we're trying to analyze how different models of computers work... There is a paper on exactly this case - "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?". Great read. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Wow that was an eye opener to the state of the field, thanks for posting!

Re: Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

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Still analogous. Piles of correlations.

No. Experimental manipulation over multi levels description allows causal inference

My comment was in regards to the discipline of neuroscience as a whole, not parts of it.
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