Neuroscientist argues experimental neuroscience can't crack intelligence, but aids disease therapies
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-06
Researcher Aran Nayebi weighed in on a debate: after enough time around experimental neuroscience, he finds experimental approaches intractable for solving intelligence — not only because biology is hard and slow, but because the tasks used are overly simple and non-ethological. He still sees value in targeted disease therapies, which he says is the main goal of the experimentalists anyway.
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