Quotes like this make me shake my head:
Friston’s results have earned praise for bringing together so many disparate strands of neuroscience. “It is quite certainly the most advanced conceptual framework regarding an application of these ideas to brain function in general,” says Wennekers. Marsel Mesulam, a cognitive neurologist from Northwestern University in Chicago, adds: “Friston’s work is pivotal. It resonates entirely with the sort of model that I would like to see emerge.”
It is pretty funny to see neuroscientists congratulate themselves for inventing something that was already known in literature that they apparently don't read. Friston's "most advanced conceptual framework" has been around since at least the early 1990s in theoretical computer science and expressly considered in the context of AI and cognitive function. I was personally using predictive error math to reverse engineer neural structure function almost ten years ago (which sounds more useful than it actually is -- that is not the hard part). However, I will grant that nobody was really paying attention to that area of math at the time. And the biology guys have the nerve to say the computer scientists do not pay enough attention to neuroanatomy research. :-)
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