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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation

Brain Inspired

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The Relationship Between Structure and Function in Neuroscience

There's this classic a problem, i suppose, in neura science, relating structure to function. And like eve martyr has said, that structure is necessary, but not sufficient to understand function because of things like multiple realizability. I feel like there's room fora these different types of explanations, causal, non causal, et cetera, to fit together and enable a satisfying account of the relation between structure and function.

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