Science paper: brain is suboptimal on wiring cost and efficiency due to reliability
neuroprinciples · x · 2026-09-03
A paper eight months in the making landed at Science. The authors built a generative brain network model using game theory and reservoir computing to study human brain wiring.
- Conventional view: brains trade off wiring cost against communication efficiency
- Finding: the brain is suboptimal on both, because a third pressure — computational reliability — shapes the trade-off
- Adding this third constraint explains real brain network structure
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