The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and
complex aerobatics with less computational might than an
electric toaster
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The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and
complex aerobatics with less computational might than an
electric toaster
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To the author: Thanks for the interesting article and describing your future work. It might be useful to the reader if you also pointed out that the synapses play an important part in the computations. We know for example, that mammalian synapses do addition, subtraction, integration, differentiation and correlation computations among others. Therefore, a few neurons can do robust computations and just knowing the neurons, their connections, and numbers (in particular)can be misleading.
I also, earlier, was fascinated by my friend Larry Andrews (NB Labs) discussion about providing the headstage and 4 electrode implant in the fruit fly at the Neuroscience Lab in San Jose.
Posted by E.G. (Jerry) Bylander | January 10, 2008 9:40 PM
Posted on January 10, 2008 21:40