It's a bit like homeopathy: it fails the tests, it's conceptually unsound, but "it works on me". Maybe neural codes are a powerful placebo though: nice epistemic satisfaction with no explanatory content.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30714889/
"Neural coding" is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is often inappropria...
