Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: From Sledgehammer to Scalpel

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 11:20 in Biology & Nature

A puzzle about how ensemble action can be honed down to act on individual units - a process analogous to how our thoughts control our actions by ensemble-to-single neuron honing in the brain.

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