Where are the cores in this thing? …and what are they computing?
Keyword(s):
Ad Hoc
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Evolution conserves components below, and goals above, the levels for circuits and computations. This work presents evidence consistent with similar evolutionary conservation of a small, possibly canonical number of circuits and computations, and cites some historical interest in this idea. Electronic circuits are examples of what we would like to know. There are several strikingly common features of nervous systems that may be both conserved and computational essential. There is always a null hypothesis, and the work acknowledges the possibility that computation itself is ad-hoc in multiple areas and nervous systems, and not itself a conserved property. But we don’t know, and we should.