Exploring the Intersection of Weather Prediction and Neuroscience

Computational neuroscientists rely on simplification when they make their models. But what is the right level of simplification?

When should we, for example, use a biophysically detailed model and when a simplified abstract model when modelling neural dynamics? What are the problems of simplifying too much, or too little? 

 This was the topic of the panel discussion between a science philosopher (MC), author of the recent book “The Brain Abstracted”, and an experienced modeler (TS) at the FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo in June 2025.