The cerebral code : thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind
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The cerebral code : thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind
（Bradford book）
MIT Press, c1996
- : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"The Cerebral Code" offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence. As Piaget emphasized in 1929, intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response. Calvin tackles a mechanism for doing this exploration and improvement offline, as we think before we act or practice the art of good guessing. Surprisingly, the subtitle's "mosaics of the mind" is not a literary metaphor.
It is a description of a mechanism of that appears to be an appropriate level of explanation for many mental phenomena, that of hexagonal mosaics of electrical activity that compete for territory in the association cortex of the brain.
目次
- Part 1: The representation problem and the copying solution
- cloning in cerebral cortex
- a compressed code emerges
- managing the cerebral commons
- resonating with your chaotic memories
- partioning the playfield. Part 2: The Brownian notion
- convergence zones with a hint of sex
- chimes on the quarter hour
- the making of metaphor
- thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
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