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BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology

Brain Inspired

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The Brain as a Dynamical System

Dynamical systems theory is a way of thinking about the brain as an evolving dynamical system. A great analogy would be something like this, if you conceptualize all the billions of neurons in your nervous system and how they interact overtime. And so i started to think, if you've got an attractor landscape, that's a little bit like a little coalition of neurons firing a lot. They're kind of basically saying, this is where we're going to move towards. The kinds of equations that weud describe that analogy are really directly related to how the nervous system interacting with withness itself.

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