Information Theory

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Where is the blueprint in the C. elegans connectome — a decomposition of reproducible wiring into contact geometry, developmental timing, and a small transmitter bias, with the falsified hidden-code hypotheses

Where is the 'blueprint' in the C. elegans connectome?

A worm's genome is far too small to store its ~7,000 wiring connections one by one — yet the wiring is nearly the same in every animal. So where is the information that specifies it? This is the log of a systematic hunt: a dozen candidate 'hidden codes' tested and ruled out, and the surprisingly simple thing that was left standing.

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