typo-alert
Kenneth Collins wrote in message ...
>mat wrote in message
><43525ce3.0208050245.702a29ca at posting.google.com>...
>>[...]
>>You claim the natural tendency of neural tissue is to
>>minimize excitation, whereas in fact quite the opposite is true
(see
>>the work of Traub et al.).
>>Got a specific ref[?] ("anyone, anyone anyone[?"] :-)
>>Pub Med doesn't work for me [probably because I've got some stuff
>turned-off. Get hacked enough without pitching-in with respect to
>such.]
>>BTW, I 'missed' it earlier, but I do not "claim the natural tendency
>of neural tissue is to minimize excitation".
>>I claim the natural tendency of nervous systems is to simultaneously
>minimize excitation and maximize inhibition.
>>A couple of Big-Differences in-there.
>>1. no neuron's structure and function can be adequately-addressed
>outside of its fully-integrated topological '[c]ontext' within a
>nervous system.
-------------------------------------------typo-alert ^^^^^
>>2. "minimizing excitation" is not the same as "simultaneously
>minimizing excitation and maximizing inhibition", at least not in a
>Living nervous system.
>>It's all discussed in AoK.
>>Over the short-term, many subsystems' dynamics contradict the
>"fundamental wisdom" [AoK, Ap4] of TD E/I-minimization, which allows
>overall [long-term] TD E/I-minimization, up to the [resetable]
>"volitional diminishing-returns decision" TD E/I threshold.
>>It's all discussed in AoK.
>>k. p. collins
>>>[...]
