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

Brain Inspired

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Do We Need to Give Up Language and Ontological Terms or Start Talking More About Configurations?

The transient specificity of that network is a function of the way the constraints operate between the nodes. So each of the nodes is multifunctional in an important way, but when it's in a network formed for a particular purpose, behaviorally speaking, then each of those nodes is constrained by its participation in that network to only express some subset or one instance of its functional possibilities. That sentence implies a very different neuroscience than the one we're doing right now. And that's what you mean by emergent. You don't mean a spooky property of. No, I mean,you know, something that, that, and I'm trying to think of a word other than emergent.

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