Abstract
In the previous chapter we tried to answer the question concerning the level of precision at which the wiring of nerve nets is defined by considering two special cases. The question of constancy has a more general aspect. I will first introduce it in a philosophical way, borrowing some concepts from geometry, which will then guide us in an approach to that most spectacular structure of the vertebrate brain, the cerebellar cortex.
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty, and perfection.
Hermann Weyl [6.12]
Dedicated to Nello.
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Braitenberg, V. (1977). Neuroanatomical Invariants: Analysis of the Cerebellar Cortex. In: On the Texture of Brains. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87702-5_6
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