I feel inordinately proud of this post, probably because this was a problem that I’ve been confused about since 2019, and I literally taught myself neuroscience in large part because I wanted to solve this problem, and I spent what amounts to several years of full-time effort building up an ability to tackle it … and this post represented the moment when I finally felt like I had my foot in the door towards a satisfying solution.
Granted, there’s still plenty more work to do, and indeed I’ve continued to follow up on this work in the past year since I wrote this post; but it now feels like I’m filling in gaps, and fleshing out details, and refactoring inelegant descriptions, whereas before it felt like I was trying to breach a wall of impenetrable mystery.
I feel inordinately proud of this post, probably because this was a problem that I’ve been confused about since 2019, and I literally taught myself neuroscience in large part because I wanted to solve this problem, and I spent what amounts to several years of full-time effort building up an ability to tackle it … and this post represented the moment when I finally felt like I had my foot in the door towards a satisfying solution.
Granted, there’s still plenty more work to do, and indeed I’ve continued to follow up on this work in the past year since I wrote this post; but it now feels like I’m filling in gaps, and fleshing out details, and refactoring inelegant descriptions, whereas before it felt like I was trying to breach a wall of impenetrable mystery.