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Electrical recordings are an extremely sparse sample of the vast number of neurons in a human brain (or even rodent brain). Perhaps the following paper will help illustrate the level of caution we should exercise in interpreting the roles of particular recorded
neurons:</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268" id="LPlnk300993">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268</a></span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Just to offer my humble opinion on other topics in this thread:</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* It is more likely that any given neuron is functioning as part of a larger ensemble
rather than acting alone to represent some concept. That ensemble is more likely to be a dynamical system, and its "representations" are regions or attractors in the state space of the overall system.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">* Another way to frame "meaning" is the actions a physical system, such as an animal,
takes in the world. Neural states have meaning because they have a direct causal relationship with our body, which in turn has a causal relationship with the environment around us. Specific example: my act of emitting a certain pattern of sounds may change
your behavior, which may result in me receiving some food. (Ordering dinner at a restaurant.)</span></div>
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