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09/04/2003 Archived Entry: "Something to Keep in Mind the Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology Lab"
Something to Keep in Mind the Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology Lab. Topics: neurophysiology, consciousness, and intentionality. ... Follow up to search on Category errors -and WJ Freeman paper Three centuries of category errors in studies of the neural basis of consciousness and intentionality published in Neural Networks 10: 1175-1183, 1997. [ Paper Abstract: Recent interest in consciousness and the mind-brain problem has been fueled by technological advances in brain imaging and computer modeling in artificial intelligence: Can machines be conscious? The machine metaphor originated in Cartesian "reflections" and culminated in 19th century reflexology modeled on Newtonian optics. It replaced the Aquinian view of mind, which was focused on the emergence of intentionality within the body, with control of output by input through brain dynamics. The state variables for neural activity were identified successively with animal spirits, élan vital, electricity, energy, information, and, most recently, Heisenbergian potentia. The source of dynamic structure in brains was conceived to lie outside brains in genetic and environmental determinism. An alternative view has grown in the 20th century from roots in American Pragmatists, particularly John Dewey, and European philosophers, particularly Heidegger and Piaget, by which brains are intrinsically unstable and continually create themselves. This view has new support from neurobiological studies in properties of self-organizing nonlinear dynamic systems. Intentional behavior can only be understood in relation to the chaotic patterns of neural activity that produce it. The machine metaphor remains, but the machine is seen as self-determining."
Particularly interesting section on quantum phenomenology as root of consciousness contains Penrose quote "The main difference between the coherer model of mind and quantum consciousness models is that ... mind is somehow resident in Heisenberg's quantum potentia rather than in electromagnetic "ether."" - and is elaborated in the discussion: "Criticisms that brains, neurons, organelles and receptor molecules are neither small enough nor cold enough to afford quantum coherence have been met with the rejoinder that superconductivity is a macroscopic state of coherence that has already been achieved at temperatures approaching Siberian winter nights, and that it may soon be found also at normal brain temperatures."
Very interesting and promising ... worth looking at a lot of Freeman's source material.
THE NEURODYNAMIC BOOK TO GET IS OF COURSE Neurodynamics: An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics (Perspectives in Neural Computing) by Walter J. Freeman which provides an overview of important work carried out by Professor Walter Freeman of the University of Berkeley, California, USA. Collecting together his published works over the last 35 years, it charts his groundbreaking research into perception and other cognitive operations in animals and humans and looks at how this can be applied to computer hardware to provide the foundations for novel - and greatly improved - machine intelligence. It provides a step-by-step description of the concepts and data needed by electrical engineers, computer scientists and cognitivists to understand and emulate pattern recognition in biological systems at a level of competence which has not yet been matched by any form of Artificial Intelligence. It offers a unique blend of theory and experiment and, historically, it also demonstrates the impact of computers on the design, execution, and interpretation of experiments in neurophysiology over the past five decades.
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Walter J. Freeman Books List:
How Brains Make Up Their Minds by Walter J. Freeman
Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion by Rafael Nunez
Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate: The Spinoza Lectures: Amsterdam, Netherlands (The International Neural Networks) by Walter J. Freeman
Neurodynamics: An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics (Perspectives in Neural Computing) by Walter J. Freeman
How Brains Make Up Their Minds by Walter J. Freeman
Mass Action in the Nervous System: Examination of Neurophysiological Basis of Adoptive Behavior Through the Eeg by Walter J. Freeman
Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate (The International Neural Networks Society) by Walter J. Freeman
How Brains Make Up Their Minds (Maps of the Mind) by Walter J. Freeman
Neurodynamics Books:
Neurodynamics of Personality by Jim Grigsby
Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data by Va.)/ Prilbram Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics 1992 Radford
Neurodynamics of Personality by Jim Grigsby
Neurodynamics: An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics (Perspectives in Neural Computing) by Walter J. Freeman
Neurodynamics: Proceedings of the 9th Summer Workshop on Mathematical Physics, Arnold Sommerfeld Institute for Mathematical Physics Clausthal, 17-20 by F. Pasemann
Scale in Conscious Experience: Is the Brain Too Important to Be Left to Specialists to Study? by Joseph King
Neurodynamics and Psychology by G. D. A. Brown
Brain and Values: Is a Biological Science of Values Possible (The Inns Series of Texts, Monographs and Proceedings) by Va.)/ Pribram Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics 1996 Radford
Neuroscience Books:
Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel
Neuroscience (Book with CD-ROM) by Dale Purves
Anatomy and Physiology for Speech, Language, and Hearing by Anthony J. Seikel
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph Ledoux
Fundamental Neuroscience, Second Edition by Larry R. Squire
Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation by Laurie Lundy-Ekman
Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology by Daniel Johnston
Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code (Computational Neuroscience) by Fred Rieke
Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems by Peter Dayan
Fundamental Neuroscience by Duane E. Haines
Muscle and Sensory Testing by Nancy Berryman Reese
Atlas of Functional Neuroanatomy by Hendelman Walter J.
Endocrinology (5th Edition) by Mac E. Hadley
The Oxford Companion to the Mind by Richard L. Gregory
The Human Brain : Essentials of Behavioral Neuroscience by Jackson Beatty
Consciousness Books:
Natural Philosophy: Written to Evolve the Human Consciousness by Ben Harris
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Sanctuary: The Path to Consciousness by Stephen Lewis
Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness by Valerie V. Hunt
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel
Confessions of a God Seeker: A Journey to Higher Consciousness by Ford Johnson
Integral Psychology : Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy by Ken Wilber
The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World by Maggie Goswami
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness by Martha Stout
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Perspectives on Gender (New York, N.Y.).) by Patricia Hill Collins
Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Clement Dennett
Intentionality Books:
Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness by William A. Tiller
How Brains Make Up Their Minds by Walter J. Freeman
Intentions and Intentionality : Foundations of Social Cognition by Bertram F. Malle
Faces of Intention : Selected Essays on Intention and Agency by Michael E. Bratman
The Intentional Stance by Daniel C. Dennett
The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics by Philip Pettit
Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Consciousness and Language by John R. Searle
A Historical Introduction to Phenomenology by Seppo Sajama
Intentionality : An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind by John R. Searle
Tales of the Mighty Dead : Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality by Robert B. Brandom
Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior by Alfred R. Mele
Actions and Other Events: The Unifier-Multiplier Controversy (American University Studies, V: Philosophy, Vol. 75) by Karl Pfeifer
Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought (Oxford Cognitive Science Series) by Robert C. Stalnaker
The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics by Philip Pettit
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