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Category Theory and Higher Dimensional Algebra: potential descriptive tools in neuroscience

R. Brown·T. Porter
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We explain the notion of colimit in category theory as a potential tool for describing structures and their communication, and the notion of higher dimensional algebra as a potential yoga for dealing with processes and processes of processes.

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R. Brown, T. Porter. 2008-02-10. Category Theory and Higher Dimensional Algebra: potential descriptive tools in neuroscience. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306223

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