Great citation. Thanks, Frank. G.
> On Dec 17, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Since the last third of the twentieth century, the whole tenor of neurology > and Neuroscience has been moving towards such a dynamic and constructional > view of the brain, a sense that even at the most Elementary levels--as, for > example, in the "filling in" of a blind spot or a scotoma or the seeing of a > visual illusion, as both Richard Gregory and V. S. Ramachandran have > demonstrated--the brain constructs a plausible hypothesis or pattern or > scene. In his theory of neuronal group selection, Gerald Edelman--drawing on > the data of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, of embryology and evolutionary > biology, of clinical and experimental work, and of synthetic neural > modeling--proposes a detailed neurobiological model of the mind in which the > brain's Central role is precisely that of constructing categories--first > perceptual then conceptual--and VB of an ascending process of "bootstrapping" > where through repeating recategorization at higher and higher levels, > consciousness is finally achieved. This, for Edelman, every perception is a > creation and every memory a re-creation or recategorization. > > Such categories, he feels, depend on the "values" of the organism, those > biases and dispositions [partly innate, partly learned] which, for Freud, > were characterized as "drives", "instincts" and "affects." The attunement > here between Freud's view and Edelman's is striking; here, at least, one has > the sense that psychoanalysis and neurobiology can be fully at home with one > another, congruent and mutually supportive. And it may be that in this > equation of Nachtra:glichkeit with "recategorization" we see a hint of how > the two seemingly disparate universes--the universes of human meaning and of > natural science--may come together." > > ----------------------------------- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > <https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly> > > My scientific publications: > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2> > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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