This ground-breaking paper makes it pretty clear that knowledge consists of patterns of connectivity in the brain. These patterns now have a name: the synaptome. As Shelly Fan explains, " Like a map into internal thoughts, synaptomes drew a vivid picture of what the mouse was thinking when it made its choice... Like computer code, a synaptome seems to underlie a computational output—a decision or thought." There's a lot more in this paper - read it end-to-end. Keep reading, even if you don't understand bits. The paper is loaded with insights - the connection to small worlds networks, hubs in the hippocampus, modifying the synaptome, distributed representation, and more.
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