lukeprog comments on Why I Moved from AI to Neuroscience, or: Uploading Worms - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 13 April 2012 11:07:54AM *  4 points [-]

Quick summary: The reason it's great to be a neuroscientist today is optogenetics.

Good talk, David! And a good Q&A.

Comment author: davidad 13 April 2012 11:10:55AM *  3 points [-]

Thanks! Richard Feynman said it best: "It is very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing!"

Comment author: lukeprog 13 April 2012 11:51:01AM 2 points [-]

BTW, what's the paper about putting the zebrafish in the Matrix?

Comment author: davidad 13 April 2012 12:05:02PM *  4 points [-]

"Brain-wide neural dynamics at single-cell resolution during rapid motor adaptation in larval zebrafish" by Ahrens et al., accepted to Nature but not yet published. I've taken the liberty of uploading it to scribd: Paper Supplementary Info