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- Subject: CLOSED LOOP; mollusc of opportunity
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:16:00 GMT
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- From Greg Williams (921216)
-
- I plan to put the papers by Tom & Bill and by Rick in the next CLOSED LOOP,
- together with the second (concluding) part of the thread begun in the last
- issue. Rick, please send the latest version of your paper via e-mail. Tom,
- Bill, and Rick, I'll try to send galleys to you for final checking ca. first
- week in January.
-
- >Tom Bourbon (921215.0925 CST)
-
- >If I had the skills and techniques
- >to work at the single-cell level with Aplysia, the marine snail, I
- >would drop everything else and begin a crash program, starting with
- >behavioral studies to test whether the creature controls anything.
- >After demonstrating the obvious, I would begin a systematic
- >analysis of the control-system properties of the creature's
- >exquisitely mapped nervous system -- anatomically exquisite, I do
- >not trust most of the functional maps. They were created in S-R,
- >or I-O, research procedures. If anyone out there is interested in
- >a trip to Oslo, I believe I just handed you a ticket.
-
- I don't think you need to do the neurophysiology yourself. What you need to do
- is sort through the volumes (one big book, one small book, and many papers) on
- APLYSIA neurophysiology and behavior studies, see what you can find relevant
- to the creature-as-control-system (reinterpreting results in the light of
- PCT), and then come up with concrete, detailed proposals regarding exactly
- what crucial experiments are needed to be done by Kandel and the other
- experienced workers in the field, given the (I predict) suggestive results
- already in hand. Don't just claim that "they done it wrong" in vague
- generalities. How, SPECIFICALLY, can they do better? Hand Kandel et al. the
- ticket. (Actually, I think Kandel would get a Nobel any way.)
-
- As ever,
-
- Greg
-