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Re:Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Per... by DocSavage on Sunday December 04, 2016 @08:50AM (#13099970)
I would suggest "Principles of Neural Design", a book that tries to explain why things might be engineered the way they are in biology:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/neuraldesign%20

Re:Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Per... by posterboy on Sunday December 04, 2016 @10:36AM (#13100250)
"explains" and "might" are kind of at odds, here