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SciPost Journals Publication Detail SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 84 (2024) Ambitions for theory in the physics of life

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Wang discusses why he decided the time was right for a new theoretical neuroscience textbook and how bifurcation is a key missing concept in neuroscience explanations.