<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hallo,<br><br>thanks to all for the important discussion.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote id="DWT578" style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">[..]What that means inevitably, in my view, is that the only way we will ever understand what brain-like is, is to pay tremendous attention experimentally and in our models to the actual detailed anatomy and physiology of the brains circuits and cells.</blockquote>here I do not agree with you. Understanding cognitive processes makes it necessary to understand the major principles<br>in encoding and decoding since the physiological details are different for each subject while the basic underlying<br>mechanism is (with high probability) the same. Hence, considering more anatomical details does not lead us that far.<br>We recognize this in todays' research progress, where physiological neuroscientists extracts tons of detailed data <br>from different patients and do not understand it. One way out is the progress of theory, and not of collecting more data.<br><br>Best<br><br><br>Axel</div></body></html>