This sentence is really hard to understand

[gavin-parker]

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"The actual sparseness of the brain needs to balance this advantage,
the increased capacity, along with a metabolic advantage and more
abstract computational advantage which says that a sparse coding for
information involves object recognition or segmentation against the
disadvantages, most obviously the vulnerability of the pattern to the
loss of neurons or connections and, perhaps more importantly, a sparse
code involves fewer elements and so may be less useful for
retrieval."

Is it possible to split this up a bit? I am really struggling to understand what you are trying to say here.

Thanks!!

[conorhoughton]

"Sparseness has advantages:
the increased capacity just described,, along with a metabolic advantage and a more
abstract computational advantage which says that a sparse coding for
information involves object recognition or segmentation. The brain must balance these advantages against the disadvantages, most obviously is the vulnerability of the pattern to the
loss of neurons or connections. Another disadvantage is that a sparse
code involves fewer elements and so may be less useful for
retrieval."