The Human Condition
As Seen by a Materialist Neurobiologist
Paul Grobstein
Building the Scientific Mind
Vancouver, May 2007
Some Details:
Exploring, Creating
- The nervous system is a distributed system with no one in charge
- The nervous system can generate outputs with no inputs
- The nervous system has a degree of unpredictability
"Under carefully controlled experimental circumstances, an animal will behave as it damned well pleases"
- The nervous system maintains and updates models of what is outside itself
- "Learning" involves comparisons of expectation and input to "get it less wrong"
Its not getting it "right" that should be valued but trying out things and learning from what doesn't work
- All this can, and does, occur continuously and unconsciously
- All nervous systems are designed by evolution to explore/create, to try out things to see what works better
Variability in Brain Function and Behavior
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