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Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

100 years of #quantummechanics this year! Werner Heisenberg introduced fundamental uncertainty into physics and demolished Newtons clockwork.
Few people know that Werner Heisenberg's youngest son Martin spent his career introducing uncertainty into #neuroscience studying #drosophila fruit flies.

His experiments can tell us a lot about how human brains work. I think we ought to embrace the uncertainty!

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/07/embrace-the-uncertainty/

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Simon Bothof
@thesanesociety@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
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Interesting! Have there been experiments in which conditioning has removed the uncertainty entirely (thus leading not to probabilistic, but to certain behavioral outcomes) ? Don't worry, I'm not asking this to engage in any experiments on children or other people that annoy me 😛
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