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Consciousness & the Small Network Argument

Michael Herzog, Wulfram Gerstner
2007
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The last decade has experienced a vivid enthusiasm to unravel the mystery of consciousness believed to be one of the major puzzles of humankind. We share this enthusiasm. Still,we feel that current models are incomplete suffering from a problem that we call the "small network argument".

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Michael Herzog, Wulfram Gerstner
2007
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/5a3cd1b4-6d8c-482e-a068-28f2d2445290

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