Cognitive Closure
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. …
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. …
Pardon the title of this posting but it’s the best I can do. A mini-interview in the New Scientist (April 19-25) caught my eye. Jill Bolte Taylor’s story gives credence to the network model of cognitive architecture that postulates that cognitive representations consist of widely distributed networks of cortical neurons. Cognitive functions, namely perception, attention, memory, language,…