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From Jonathan D. Lettvin
Jonathan D. Lettvin
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| 5559960 Software anti-virus facility | (Continuation in Part) Imaging System 7796173 | ||
| 5826012 Boot-time anti-virus and maintenance facility | Geometric remapping with delay lines 7952626 |
My personal goal is to answer Cajal's three questions about nervous systems (ISBN 0-19-507401-7 Histology of the Nervous System): "Practitioners will only be able to claim that a valid explanation of a histological observation has been provided if three questions can be answered satisfactorily: what is the functional role of the arrangement in the animal; what mechanisms underlie this function; and what sequence of chemical and mechanical events during evolution and development gave rise to these mechanisms." Santiago Ramón y Cajal
(A quote from Jerry Lettvin)
"If it does not change everything, why waste your time doing the study."
JERRY LETTVIN MEMORIAL POEM
by Jonathan D. Lettvin
You'll not from quaint and curious volumes quote forevermore
nor pull electrodes from raw stock nor credit card your door.
No octopus nor frog nor cat will know your twitching hand.
No student's eye will open wide to see what you've unplanned.
Dissenters now go undefended. Strange guests don't stay late.
More zebras go undiagnosed 'though frank in tic and gait.
We'll miss how wrong our theories are when we're so sure they're right.
Without you we are all alone. There's none like you to fight.
