Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
frontiersin.org
Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
frontiersin.org
Mary Martin and added
cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain.
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
Mary Martin added
Ultimately, shifting the focus from neural to cellular processing invites us to reconsider the received idea that cognitive processes can be linked solely to the neural system, and that the brain is somehow the natural home of mental states.
cognition is the result of information processing distributed across all cellular systems in the body, including the brain, which is, in our view, (part of) the body. Speaking about brain-body-environment interactions in constituting cognition may be misleading because it tacitly inherits the distinction between mind (brain) and body. Cognitive pro... See more
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
Mary Martin added
Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.
Embodiment
The entire body processes energy as information in a brain-like manner and information-processing cells are present in all parts of the body.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
juarry added
Neuroscientists now think of the brain as an ever-changing ecosystem crackling with electrochemical energy from which our thoughts, emotions, and intentions arise, rather than a collection of blinking neural islands.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Collective neuroscience offers a different way of seeing neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, for example – not as instances of individual ‘dysfunctions’ in the brain, but as phenomena that emerge from multiple dynamic physiological and social processes. How does one get to the bottom of human cognition if we are intrin... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
Keely Adler added
collective neuroscience involves reckoning with the science of complex systems, where causation is not linear but looping, and social and neuronal structures mesh in unpredictable ways.
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
Keely Adler added