The Brain: General Architecture
Neurons and Neuronal Signaling, Revisited
- Neuronal signals may originate inside the nervous system as well as outside
- There is some degree of indeterminacy in the generation of neuronal signals
- The organization of the nervous system is influenced by its own activity
From the Reflex Machine to the Adaptive Output/Input/Output Box
- The brain is an active explorer rather than a passive receiver and a contributor to its own shaping rather than simply a product of influences upon it
- The activity of the nervous system influences both input and interpretation of input
| | "input is never into a quiescent or static system, but always into a system which is already excited and organized" ... Karl Lashley, The Problem of Serial Order in Behavior, 1951
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- Output creates in the nervous system expectations of input
- Comparison of expectations with actual input facilitates (constitutes?) learning
- Harvard Law of Animal Behavior and further implications for research
- Expect/value the unexpected
- Where is "external world", "reality", "truth", "creating", "story telling"?
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