The cerebral code :thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind
- 作者: Calvin, William H.,
- 出版: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ©1996.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (256 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Disciplines and Occupations. , cognition. , Sciences physiques. , Thinking , MEDICAL , Anatomie. , Life sciences. , Neurosciences cognitives. , Memory , Apprentissage. , brains. , Cortex cérébral. , Psychological Phenomena and Processes. , Consciousness. , Electronic books. , Geheugen. , Physical sciences. , Denken. , Psychophysiologie. , Selection, Genetic , Cerveau. , Human information processing. , Humans Brain Physiology. , Mémoire. , Anatomy , Natural selection. , Psychophysiology. , Central nervous system. , Conscience. , Cerebral Cortex , Physiology , Physiology. , Neuropsychology. , Biological Science Disciplines , Anatomy. , physical sciences. , biological sciences. , Sélection naturelle. , Cerebral cortex. , Cognition , Cognitive neuroscience. , Traitement de l'information chez l'homme. , MEDICAL Neuroscience. , Hersenen. , Sciences de la vie. , Physiologie. , Psychophysiology , Central Nervous System , Natural Science Disciplines , Cognitieve psychologie. , Memory. , Mental Processes , Learning. , Nervous system. , physiology. , Health & Biological Sciences. , anatomy. , Cognition. , PSYCHOLOGY , Consciousness , thinking. , Pensée. , Psychiatry and Psychology. , Human Anatomy & Physiology. , Brain , Thought and thinking. , Brain. , Neuropsychologie. , Learning , Système nerveux central. , PSYCHOLOGY Neuropsychology. , Nervous System , Neuroscience. , Système nerveux.
- ISBN: 0262531542 , 9780262531542
- ISBN: 9780262032414 , 0262032414 , 0262032414
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- 附註: "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index. Representation problem and the copying solution -- Cloning in cerebral cortex -- Compressed code emerges -- Managing the cerebral commons -- Resonating with your chaotic memories -- Partitioning the playfield -- Brownian notion -- Convergence zones with a hint of sex -- Chimes on the quarter hour -- Making of metaphor -- Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
- 摘要: The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're 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 consciousness and versatile intelligence. Shuffled memories, no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, can evolve subconsciously into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. The "interoffice mail" circuits of the cerebral cortex are nicely suited for this job because they're good copying machines, able to clone the firing pattern within a hundred-element hexagonal column. That pattern, Calvin says, is the "cerebral code" representing an object or idea, the cortical-level equivalent of a gene or meme. Transposed to a hundred-key piano, this pattern would be a melody - a characteristic tune for each word of your vocabulary and each face you remember. Newly cloned patterns are tacked onto a temporary mosaic, much like a choir recruiting additional singers during the "Hallelujah Chorus." But cloning may "blunder slightly" or overlap several patterns - and that variation makes us creative. Like dueling choirs, variant hexagonal mosaics compete with one another for territory in the association cortex, their successes biased by memorized environments and sensory inputs. Unlike selectionist theories of mind, Calvin's mosaics can fully implement all six essential ingredients of Darwin's evolutionary algorithm, repeatedly turning the quality crank as we figure out what to say next. Even the optional ingredients known to speed up evolution (sex, island settings, climate change) have cortical equivalents that help us think up a quick comeback during conversation. Mosaics also supply "audit trail"
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The Cerebral Code is a new 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. For the first time, it is a description of a mechanism of what 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. This two-dimensional mosaic is predicted to grow and dissolve much as the sugar crystals do in the bottom of a supersaturated glass of iced tea. A Bradford Book
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