Ryan Tyler (@ryane-tyler.bsky.social)

𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Excellent short piece about causation in the brain by @neurograce.bsky.social In a complex system talking about necessary and sufficient is not productive. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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Claims of necessity, sufficiency don’t work well for studies of complex systems Early studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were done on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic work for complex outputs? https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/claims-of-necessity-and-sufficiency-are-not-well-suited-for-the-study-of-complex-systems/