Brains and Braun

[Jim Bower]

With respect to the recent Biology / abstract
modeling discussion.  I would like to suggest that
the distance between Cognitive Psychology
and the details of brain circuitry might very
well be as substantial as the distance between 
connectionist models and brain structure.  Accordingly,
relations between abstract descriptions of brain function
and the performance of abstract networks does not 
necessarily make me, as a computational neurobiologist,
more comfortable with either.

Jim Bower