A new paper, researchers at the Flatiron Institute, NYU Langone, and Rutgers University propose that sensory neurons are not just passive filters but active, “self-supervised learners“. Their job is to find hidden structures in the dynamic flow of sensory data, effectively sorting the present moment based on its shared history or its likely future.
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