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Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:59:10 GMT

Basically this is electrophysiology research on C elegans. Most of the research being done, AFAIK, is hypothesis testing and doesn't systematically measure all of the connection strengths at once. Plus then you have the correlation vs causation problem even if you did measure them all at, which is why davidad wanted to do optogenetics, but again AFAIK that didn't actually get done.

Bottom line: this research is technically difficult and like most research topics is not well funded.

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