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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

Brain Inspired

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The Paradigm Shifting Approach to the Brain

The notion that you can use, say, I can throw them into my model somehow undermines any particular theoretical approach to the brain is a mistake. Even though it's largely taken to be a good argument against certain ways of going, oh, I can just throw them in my model. It's like, okay, but that's because your models, I'm constrained by a theory. That's not how that works. You need to constrain that modeling with a theory to figure out how you put those models together. The paradigm shifts are an historical phenomenon that occurs or doesn't, depending on lots of factors. No individual author or even group can be responsible for that shift. And then great

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