This discussion reminds me of Emery Brown's systems neuroscience approach to general anesthesia. It abstracts the detailed neurophysiology in favor of a phenomenological model of the brain as a network of interconnected linear systems, so one can study the effect of various anesthetic drugs in terms of things like resonance, synchronization, desynchronization, etc. Now, on the basis of this abstraction, Emery was recommending the incorporation of EEG into the anesthesiologist's toolkit as an additional measurement device. I think it's an important question, whether one can always find such additional instruments in other contexts involving regulation and dysregulation.
This discussion reminds me of Emery Brown's systems neuroscience approach to general anesthesia. It abstracts the detailed neurophysiology in favor of a phenomenological model of the brain as a network of interconnected linear systems, so one can study the effect of various anesthetic drugs in terms of things like resonance, synchronization, desynchronization, etc. Now, on the basis of this abstraction, Emery was recommending the incorporation of EEG into the anesthesiologist's toolkit as an additional measurement device. I think it's an important question, whether one can always find such additional instruments in other contexts involving regulation and dysregulation.
Man, I have to read those papers on compartment models again.