Brain and Mind
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Cognitive Informatics: A New Transdisciplinary Research Field
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The development of classical and contemporary informatics, the cross-fertilization between computer science, software engineering, cognitive science, and neuropsychology, has led to a whole range of extremely interesting new research areas known as cognitive informatics. Cognitive informatics is the transdisciplinary study of cognitive and information sciences that investigates into the internal i......
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Synchrony in the Eye of the Beholder: An Analysis of the Role of Neural Synchronization in Cognitive Processes
Tập 3 - Trang 291-312 - 2002
We discuss the role of synchrony of activationin higher-level cognitive processes. Inparticular, we analyze the question of whethersynchrony of activation provides a mechanismfor compositional representation in neuralsystems. We will argue that synchrony ofactivation does not provide a mechanism forcompositional representation in neural systems.At face value, one can identify a level ofcomposition......
On the Supposed Utility of a Folk Theory of Pain
Tập 1 - Trang 223-228 - 2000
What follows raises objections to some arguments that claimthat a “principle of applicability” of ordinary pain talkconstrains developments in the pain sciences. A more apt pictureof lay use of pain language shows its non-theoretic character.Since instrumentalism and eliminativism are philosophical viewsabout the status of theories of pain, neither is a threatto clinical use of standard pain lingo......
Did Consciousness Evolve from Self-Paced Probing of the Environment, and Not from Reflexes?
Tập 1 - Trang 283-298 - 2000
It is suggested that the anatomical structures whichmediate consciousness evolved as decisiveembellishments to a (non-conscious) design strategypresent even in the simplest monocellular organisms.Consciousness is thus not the pinnacle of ahierarchy whose base is the primitive reflex, becausereflexes require a nervous system, which the monocelldoes not possess. By postulating that consciousness isi......
Issues of Establishment, Consolidation, and Reorganization in Biobehavioral Adaptation
Tập 3 - Trang 53-77 - 2002
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The Moral Brain
Tập 3 - Trang 133-150 - 2002
This article probes the evolutionary origins ofmoral capacities and moral agency. From thisit develops a theory of the guidancesystem of higher mind (GSHM). The GSHM is ageneral model of intelligence whereby moralfunctioning is integrated with cognitive,affective, and conative functioning, resultingin a flow of information between eight brainlevels functioning as an evaluative unitbetween stimulus......
The New Associationism: A Neural Explanation for the Predictive Powers of Cerebral Cortex
Tập 2 - Trang 161-194 - 2001
The ability to predict is the most importantability of the brain. Somehow, the cortex isable to extract regularities from theenvironment and use those regularities as abasis for prediction. This is a most remarkableskill, considering that behaviourallysignificant environmental regularities are noteasy to discern: they operate not only betweenpairs of simple environmental conditions, astraditional ......