Nice! What are the pros/cons over the free non-associative commutative magma formulation from Marcolli, Berwick & Chomsky?

We're definitely inspired by @earlkmiller.bsky.social 's work in the brain; we cite it in www.cell.com/cell-reports... for example.

You can't dissociate spiking and LFPs oscillations. They are the same system. Anything that changes spiking will affect oscillations and vice versa. Funny how people hold oscillations to a higher standard than spiking. That is just paradigm defending.

Some additional care should be taken to distinguish “mechanism” from rough empirical generalisation, I agree. But from the cog neuro of language side of the field I’m more inclined to concur with his proposals, even if tastes in metaphors don’t always align.

Konrad you need to chill. Most of these comments are not direct rebuttals, just aesthetic differences. Earl is not reaching as far as you’re suggesting with many of these broad statements.

Including the best Q&A quote (light para-phrasing): “When someone says ‘epiphenomenal’ I hear ‘this doesn’t fit the theory I like’. No one knows enough about the brain to label something as epiphenomenal”.