Some reflections on the relationships between neuroscience and computation

We are still a long way from understanding the organization and functioning of the Nervous Systems. At the same time there is a large disparity between the richness and fineness of the nervous phenomenology and the crudeness of the point neuron simplistic models we use in its modeling. This distances neuroscience from computation in an almost irreversible fashion. To contribute to the posing and partially solving of these problems we present in this paper a summary of our work that has been marked by two recurrent themes: (i) the search for a methodology of the natural, with the introduction of distinct levels and domain of description (ii) the search for inspiration in neuroscience seeking new ideas for a more realistic model of neural computation. The final purpose is to move computation a step closer to neuroscience and vice versa.