Functional Connectivity Monoid Joke

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A note for people not familiar with the terminology - "functional connectivity" is a specific technical term that really just means temporal correlation between brain areas, as opposed to "structural connectivity" which refers to the actual neural pathways that are formed between brain areas. If you rephrase the headline as "Serotonin booster leads to increased correlation between activity in different brain areas" it maybe doesn't sound as exciting. Oh, that's disappointing. I was hoping for a drug that will finally help me understand how monads are just simply monoids in the category of endofunctors.

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A screenshot of a two-comment online discussion about a scientific headline involving functional connectivity and serotonin. The punchline comes from confusing neuroscience terminology with category theory: the commenter jokingly hopes for a drug that explains why monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors. It is used as a reaction to overly technical language or when someone expected a profound explanation but got a mundane one.

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