The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan. - Gerald Edelman
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
- Gerald Edelman
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which eithe… - Gerald Edelman
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which eithe…
Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This w… - Gerald Edelman
Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This w…
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machi… - Gerald Edelman
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machi…
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is… - Gerald Edelman
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is…
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. - Gerald Edelman
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unli… - Gerald Edelman
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unli…
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatab… - Gerald Edelman
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatab…
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the syn… - Gerald Edelman
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the syn…
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