Main findings:
- Very highly correlated LFP across higher-order thalamic nuclei (during anesthesia and wakefulness) suggesting common synaptic inputs 📈
- Omnipresent responses to visual stimuli in HO thalamus under anesthesia 🚨(what could that be good for?!)

..."Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory--an event which would have refuted the theory." 3/3

Popper (1962) was critical of confirmation bias and did not admit just any prediction-come-true as support for a theory. Instead, he wrote... 2/3