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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

Brain Inspired

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The Structastic Nature of Neural Networks

In a fish, trying to count the numbers in a shoal, you need to be pretty precise. So how do we reconcile the stocastic nature of neural networks with precision needed? And what is it about those cells that makes them respond preferentially to five ness? He doesn't say. We don't know yet.

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