The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
added by Mary Martin and ยท updated 4mo ago
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
- 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.
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Mary Martin added 6mo ago
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
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Mary Martin added 6mo ago