The Brain as Scientist
14-LEVEL CORTICAL HIERARCHY • MURRAY TIMESCALES • CRR FRAMEWORK
PROBLEM SPACE
1/7
CHALLENGE
Detection
REQUIRES
LGN-V3
SCORE
0/8
TIME
0:00
Detect and respond to visual stimuli through thalamo-cortical processing.
CORTICAL HIERARCHY
τ (ms)
CRR DYNAMICS
0.00
C(t)/Ω
1.0
exp(C/Ω)
0.00
NATS / 16.03
NEUROMODULATION
DA
5-HT
NE
ACh
Professor
The brain is a
hypothesis-testing machine
, forever conducting experiments on the world...
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Felleman & Van Essen (1991) • Murray et al. (2014) • CRR Framework (Sabine, 2025)