Time to make another connection between neuroscience and poetry because why not. Thanks to @barbarikon for sharing the relevant poetry and providing inspiration. So, I have been reading 'The brain from inside out' by Buzsaki. It mainly makes a distinction between outside-in

and inside-out frameworks for research in neuroscience. The currently dominant outside-in program is mainly influenced by British empiricism (David Hume, John Locke & others). The framework postulates somewhat that our brains try to make sense of the outside objective world

through passive sensation/representation by the sensorimotor systems, and this is what a lot of the current correlational research is about (also all the discussions about whether the brain is a passive information processor of the objective inputs/stimuli from the outside world)

Buzsaki puts forward the inside-out framework in which perception is generated as a result of motor responses/actions taken by animals. These actions influence the incoming sensory inputs/signals and form an action-perception loop rather than the dominant perception-action one.

This also implies that instead of passively processing information, brains actively make predictions about the external world through actions and 'by calibrating neural activity patterns by behavior-induced consequences'. Also loosely meaning that brains generate external

realities instead of an observer-independent world. Interesting set of ideas but here's the poetry connection. The poet Iqbal captures the inside-out framework very loosely in one of his poems and it just blew me away.
Can be seen in the image below. Again thanks to @barbarikon

for sharing the verses and translation. While Buzsaki does mention that these ideas have been around and others have said similar stuff before, fascinated to find them in the verses of Iqbal. Very interested to read if people have other examples of similar ideas captured

succinctly. #neurotwitter