Category Theory and Higher Dimensional Algebra: potential descriptive tools in neuroscience
arXiv:math/0306223
Abstract
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.
11 pages, Submitted to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuroscience, Delhi, Feb 24-26, 2003 v2. small corrections, and updated references. 10 Feb 2008