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Key takeaways from Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain

“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”

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“Our favored interpretation is that drift is a manifestation of learning,” he told me. “It’s not learning itself; it’s the smoke that comes out of learning.”
“Just because we can decode that information doesn’t mean the brain is doing that,”
“Mainstream neuroscience relies on taking very specific methods and results and packaging them in a vague cloud of concepts that are only barely agreed upon by the field,” he said. “In a lot of neuroscience, the premises remain unexamined, but everything else is impeccable.”
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