Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
The Evolution of the Nervous System
In order to differentiate something, you have to generate form and then select on the forms that are generated. The development of brains goes through a kind of micro-evolutionary process. It's generating more possible connections and then constraining those. Sometimes this has been likened to Darwinian processes,. Gerald Edelman, called this neural Darwinism.
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