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BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks

Brain Inspired

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Is There a Difference Between Ambiguity and General Principles?

The trick of working in any system is to recognize which particular parts of what you find are idiosycratic and which parts are sort of hints at or ways into general principles. And i think the most efective scientists are the ones who really have learned to distinguish between inapreparation idiosyncrasies and big picture ideas. Very good. Well, ok, so you're more comfortable with a smaller degree of ambiguity. But some of the implications that your work has a revealed seems to put you in a higher realm of ambiguity given an and you know, we'll talk about what those are soon.

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