I’m really glad to see this. I can’t say I fully grasp your particular approach, but what you’ve written about model fragments has really resonated.
My intuition around value extrapolation is that if we extrapolate the topic itself it’ll eventually turn into creating fine models of nervous system dynamics. Will be curious to see how your work intersects and what it assumes about neuroscience, and also what sort of neuroscience progress you think might make your work easier.
Good luck!
Hi shminux,
You’re welcome to follow the academic literature trail I link to. CSHW is a new paradigm so it would definitely would benefit from a close critical review, if you’re able to provide that. (If you’d rather just critique something as pattern-matching to “crackpot red flags” and “pretty pictures” you can do that too, but I find this to be a content-free strategy of avoiding dealing with any of my object-level or methodological claims, and think that it needlessly lowers the level of discussion.)
I mention my personal intuitions about “limitations and potential failures” near the end of my piece; . My expectation is that CSHW, along with the predictive coding framework, is the most plausible route for neuroscience to develop knowledge in the five spheres I identified. (“Most plausible” does not mean “sure thing” of course.) The hard work still needs to be done of course. If you know of more plausible ways to unify neuroscience I’d be happy to read about it.