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A hundred years ago, Edgar Adrian recorded from a single nerve fibre and showed the stimulus out in the world is carried in the rate of its firing — he started calling the impulses a "code." We've been trying to read that code ever since.
For parts of the brain like V1 we've had
How well can you describe the feature selectivity of a vision neuron … with words? Interpretability has long borrowed from neuroscience — and maybe it can give back too! 🧵
