I hoped neuroscience, as a field, was on the cusp of a physical theory of learning and memory. I dreamt of an intersection of information theory, neuroscience,

I hoped neuroscience, as a field, was on the cusp of a physical theory of learning and memory. I dreamt of an intersection of information theory, neuroscience, and ML. Alas, state of the art in neuroscience / neural engineering is closer to bloodletting than a mechanistic theory of learning and memory.