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Apr 22, 2018 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Story: 1. Neurons in the brain are very chatty: they fire action potentials, their basic unit of communication, even when there is nothing to communicate. For example in this video, in visual cortex recordings in complete darkness. Lots of chatting:
2. The puzzle is that these neurons are in visual cortex, so they should only be talking about what the eyes tell them. But here they are in pitch black darkness, chatting continuously.
