[Darkphibre]

You seem to be anthropomorphizing the neuron. This work is pretty innovative: We've used this technique to generate similar images of computer neural networks to try to figure out what a given neuron or layer is actually learning: http://yosinski.com/deepvis

Now, we're monitoring a biological neuron with the same technique, and coming up with similar feature selection. That both validates the approach we've been taking with deep neural networks, AND it provides us heretofore-unimaginable access to individual neuronal activation materials.

Exciting stuff!

[BoiledCabbage]

> You seem to be anthropomorphizing the neuron.

And respectfully, you seem to be ignoring the fact that the neuron is part of a living sentient creature.

That comment epitomizes the cliche of an engineer/scientist so excited by the technology that they are completely blind to its real world implications.

[comex]

The images in this study were generated by a regular GAN, though. The biological neuron responses were only used to optimize the input parameters to the GAN. So I'm not sure if it really counts as independent feature selection.