I think, therefore I am. The legendary pronouncement of philosopher Rene Descartes lingers as accepted wisdom in the Western world nearly four centuries after its author's death. But does thought really come first? Who actually runs the show: we, our thoughts, or the neurons firing within our brains? Walter J. Freeman explores how we control our behavior and make sense of the world around us. Avoiding determinism both in sociobiology, which proposes that persons' genes control their brains' functioning, and in neuroscience, which posits that their brains' disposition is molded by...
I think, therefore I am. The legendary pronouncement of philosopher Rene Descartes lingers as accepted wisdom in the Western world nearly four centuri...
This text reviews the history of the mind-brain problem and demonstrates how the sciences of behavioural electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - combined with the latest computer technology - have made it possible for us to observe brains in action. It also provides an answer to the question: What happens to a stimulus after it enters the brain?. The answer: The stimulus triggers the construction of a percept and is then washed away. It argues that all that we know is what our brains construct for us by neurodynamics. Brains are not logical devices that process information. They are...
This text reviews the history of the mind-brain problem and demonstrates how the sciences of behavioural electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - co...
This text reviews the history of the mind-brain problem and demonstrates how the sciences of behavioural electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - combined with the latest computer technology - have made it possible for us to observe brains in action. It also provides an answer to the question: What happens to a stimulus after it enters the brain?. The answer: The stimulus triggers the construction of a percept and is then washed away. It argues that all that we know is what our brains construct for us by neurodynamics. Brains are not logical devices that process information. They are...
This text reviews the history of the mind-brain problem and demonstrates how the sciences of behavioural electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - co...
Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained using models derived from AI and computational theory. The authors depart radically from this model.
Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind ...
The scalp and cortex lie like pages of an open book on which the cortex enciphers vast quantities of information and knowledge. They are recorded and analyzed as temporal and spatial patterns in the electroencephalogram and electrocorticogram. This book describes basic tools and concepts needed to measure and decipher the patterns extracted from the EEG and ECoG.
This book emphasizes the need for single trial analysis using new methods and paradigms, as well as large, high-density spatial arrays of electrodes for pattern sampling. The deciphered patterns reveal neural...
The scalp and cortex lie like pages of an open book on which the cortex enciphers vast quantities of information and knowledge. They are recorded a...
D. Alistair Steyn-Ross Moira Steyn-Ross Walter J. Freeman
Foreword by Walter J. Freeman.
The induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic agents demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate in two very different behavioral modes: alert and responsive vs. unaware and quiescent. But the states of wakefulness and sleep are not single-neuron properties---they emerge as bulk properties of cooperating populations of neurons, with the switchover between states being similar to the physical change of phase observed when water freezes or ice melts. Some brain-state transitions, such as sleep cycling, anesthetic induction, epileptic seizure,...
Foreword by Walter J. Freeman.
The induction of unconsciousness using anesthetic agents demonstrates that the cerebral cortex can operate i...
This intriguing book was born out of the many discussions the authors had in the past 10 years about the role of scale-free structure and dynamics in producing intelligent behavior in brains. The microscopic dynamics of neural networks is well described by the prevailing paradigm based in a narrow interpretation of the neuron doctrine.
This intriguing book was born out of the many discussions the authors had in the past 10 years about the role of scale-free structure and dynamics in ...
