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I Promethean, bound deeply and fluidly among the brain's associative robotic networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

Robert B. Glassman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045. glassman@lakeforest.eduhttp://campus.lakeforest.edu/~glassman/

Abstract

Merker's insightful broad review fertilely recasts the mind/brain issue, but the phenomenological appeals require additional considerations of behavioral and neural flexibility. Motor equivalences and perceptual constancies may be cortical contributions to a “robotic” tectal orientation mechanism. Intermediate “third layers” of associative neural networks, each with a few diffusely summing convergence-divergence modules, may be the economical expedient by which evolution has extended the limited unity-in-diversity of sensorimotor coordination to perception, action, thinking, and memory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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