Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
What's the Dynamic Development of the Brain?
I think that if we actually wanted to explain how a particular mental process takes place, I think the best place to look is how that part of the brain developed. What's the dynamics that developed the visual system? What's being selected? How's it working? Because neurons don't suddenly become adult and say, okay, now I'm not going to do what I did when I was developing. We shouldn't expect that the computation that's going on in an area is different in adults than it was in the process of building that structure. It's just that it's now been shifted not from major connectional changes, but from strengthening and weakening synapses. The same process isn't changed
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