The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
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The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
To be frank, science knows surprisingly little about mind and consciousness. Current orthodoxy holds that consciousness is created by electrochemical reactions in the brain, and that mental experiences fulfil some essential data-processing function.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
No single neuronal circuit “knows” what’s going on any more than a single termite “knows” the structure of the mound, but large numbers of neurons can build a network from which surprising phenomenons can emerge. In this view, complex behaviors—including minds and nuanced textures of lived, conscious experience—arise out of complex networks of neur... See more
Emergentists, in contrast, believe that complex, dynamic systems cannot always be explained in terms of their constituent parts. It’s not simply a matter of peering into the brain with MRIs and discovering a particular area or system that is responsible for consciousness. The mind is instead a kind of structural pattern that emerges from the comple
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
The mind is also “embodied.” Yes, it is centered in the brain, but as we have emphasized, the human brain is mutually dependent on and distributed throughout the whole body.
David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind
the brain is a system where every neuron both
Colin Ware • Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
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