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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain

Brain Inspired

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Is There a Heterarchy in Brains?

In the book, you list some of the principles or implications for how to think about brains based on it being a complex system. What I struggle with is to think of them sort of holistically and have them all in mind when I'm thinking about a cognitive function or a brain area or process. But do you feel comfortable? Like when you think about emotion or something new that you learn about, can you bring all of these aspects to bear on the problem in a sort of holistic way? Or do you kind of step through them and think about them in slices? How do you get there? "I wouldn't claim that it's natural in some instinctive sense"

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