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

Brain Inspired

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The First Guest Question - Is There a Representation?

John crack hour: I'm extremely sympathetic to your take on artificial representations, neuro representations and how they don't really map on to mental representations as posited by most people who believe in them. But what I struggle with with all the anti-representationalists is when it comes to the conversation that you're now having with Paul or, you know, locked in patients can write novels through eye blinks, electrodes can evoke forced thoughts in frontal cortex. And citing Dennett in 1981 does not get rid of the problem. So I was wondering if you could just tell me how do you come up with a story about this question I'm answering you and how you're going to answer it without

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