Even in V1, single-function receptive fields are rare
HistedLab · x · 2026-10-17
In a follow-up to his polysemanticity thread, HistedLab notes that even in primary visual cortex — the best-understood cortical area — receptive fields that do only one thing (roughly, clean representations) are rare, reinforcing the case that neural representations are broadly mixed.
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