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The connectome includes the weights.


Do you have a reference somewhere that says that? The Wikipedia entry for connectomics does not imply that and I've not read of anything that can get the weights out of neurons.


Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Connectome-How-Brains-Wiring-Makes/dp...


That is because there are no weights to begin with. In actual biological neurons synapses perform a rather complicated biochemical dance involving vesicles, ion channels, second messengers, whenever an action potential arrives. Some of that can be described by simple ODEs which might contain a constant that you could call “weight” but the actual physical synapses know nothing about that.




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