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by ramraj07 837 days ago
To clarify, I did my PhD in an immunology department in a top US grad school, and I attended the talks by the actual authors of some of these seminal works in the neuroscience department next door. My question was not an indictment on all basic neuroscience but a request for clarification on how this particular mode of questioning (pointing out that there are grid cells or time and place cells) is productive in us figuring out our brains.