Is there any attempt at compiling a list of all publicly available university courses materials (lecture notes, videos, reference books, syllabi), across all institutions? I seem to remember cosmolearning.org but the site is no longer running.
I imagine this kind of infrastructure is really helpful, or even necessary to self learners.
The equivalent for researchers would be conferences, summer schools/workshops, powerpoints for talks, etc.
Very interesting, thank you for letting me know. I kind of expected that this is where we are right now, I am still catching up with the literature.
So even though we have the complete C. elegans connectome, this is not enough? (As you said, we don't understand individual neurons, synaptic weight, or learning rules well enough.) A quick search seems to show that the relevant sensorimotor circuits have been studied before. Is it not possible to model these directly?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4082684/
If not, perhaps starting with an organism that is even simpler than C. elegans would help.
I'm also interested, have you made any progress since your comment?