The cerebral code: thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind
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| Beschreibung: | "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human consciousness and versatile intelligence. Shuffled memories, no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, can evolve subconsciously into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. The "interoffice mail" circuits of the cerebral cortex are nicely suited for this job because they're good copying machines, able to clone the firing pattern within a hundred-element hexagonal column. That pattern, Calvin says, is the "cerebral code" representing an object or idea, the cortical-level equivalent of a gene or meme. Transposed to a hundred-key piano, this pattern would be a melody - a characteristic tune for each word of your vocabulary and each face you remember. Newly cloned patterns are tacked onto a temporary mosaic, much like a choir recruiting additional singers during the "Hallelujah Chorus." But cloning may "blunder slightly" or overlap several patterns - and that variation makes us creative. Like dueling choirs, variant hexagonal mosaics compete with one another for territory in the association cortex, their successes biased by memorized environments and sensory inputs. Unlike selectionist theories of mind, Calvin's mosaics can fully implement all six essential ingredients of Darwin's evolutionary algorithm, repeatedly turning the quality crank as we figure out what to say next. Even the optional ingredients known to speed up evolution (sex, island settings, climate change) have cortical equivalents that help us think up a quick comeback during conversation. Mosaics also supply "audit trail" structures needed for universal grammar, helping you understand nested phrases such as "I think I saw him leave to go home." And, as a chapter title proclaims, mosaics are a "A Machine for Metaphor." Even analogies can compete to generate a stratum of concepts, that are inexpressible except by roundabout, inadequate means - as when we know things of which we cannot speak Representation problem and the copying solution -- Cloning in cerebral cortex -- Compressed code emerges -- Managing the cerebral commons -- Resonating with your chaotic memories -- Partitioning the playfield -- Brownian notion -- Convergence zones with a hint of sex -- Chimes on the quarter hour -- Making of metaphor -- Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind |
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| spelling | Calvin, William H. Verfasser aut The cerebral code thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind William H. Calvin Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press ©1996 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human consciousness and versatile intelligence. Shuffled memories, no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, can evolve subconsciously into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. The "interoffice mail" circuits of the cerebral cortex are nicely suited for this job because they're good copying machines, able to clone the firing pattern within a hundred-element hexagonal column. That pattern, Calvin says, is the "cerebral code" representing an object or idea, the cortical-level equivalent of a gene or meme. Transposed to a hundred-key piano, this pattern would be a melody - a characteristic tune for each word of your vocabulary and each face you remember. Newly cloned patterns are tacked onto a temporary mosaic, much like a choir recruiting additional singers during the "Hallelujah Chorus." But cloning may "blunder slightly" or overlap several patterns - and that variation makes us creative. Like dueling choirs, variant hexagonal mosaics compete with one another for territory in the association cortex, their successes biased by memorized environments and sensory inputs. Unlike selectionist theories of mind, Calvin's mosaics can fully implement all six essential ingredients of Darwin's evolutionary algorithm, repeatedly turning the quality crank as we figure out what to say next. Even the optional ingredients known to speed up evolution (sex, island settings, climate change) have cortical equivalents that help us think up a quick comeback during conversation. Mosaics also supply "audit trail" structures needed for universal grammar, helping you understand nested phrases such as "I think I saw him leave to go home." And, as a chapter title proclaims, mosaics are a "A Machine for Metaphor." Even analogies can compete to generate a stratum of concepts, that are inexpressible except by roundabout, inadequate means - as when we know things of which we cannot speak Representation problem and the copying solution -- Cloning in cerebral cortex -- Compressed code emerges -- Managing the cerebral commons -- Resonating with your chaotic memories -- Partitioning the playfield -- Brownian notion -- Convergence zones with a hint of sex -- Chimes on the quarter hour -- Making of metaphor -- Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind Neurosciences cognitives Pensée Cortex cérébral Sélection naturelle MEDICAL / Neuroscience bisacsh PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology bisacsh Cerebral cortex fast Cognitive neuroscience fast Natural selection fast Thought and thinking fast Memory / physiology Thinking / physiology Brain / physiology Consciousness / physiology Hersenen gtt Geheugen gtt Denken gtt Cognitieve psychologie gtt Neuropsychologie gtt Medizin Cognitive neuroscience Thought and thinking Cerebral cortex Natural selection Neurophysiologie (DE-588)4041897-2 gnd rswk-swf Denken (DE-588)4011450-8 gnd rswk-swf Kognitiver Prozess (DE-588)4140177-3 gnd rswk-swf Gedächtnis (DE-588)4019614-8 gnd rswk-swf Kognitiver Prozess (DE-588)4140177-3 s Denken (DE-588)4011450-8 s Gedächtnis (DE-588)4019614-8 s Neurophysiologie (DE-588)4041897-2 s 1\p DE-604 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1427 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The cerebral code thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind |
| title_auth | The cerebral code thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind |
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| title_full | The cerebral code thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind William H. Calvin |
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| topic | Neurosciences cognitives Pensée Cortex cérébral Sélection naturelle MEDICAL / Neuroscience bisacsh PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology bisacsh Cerebral cortex fast Cognitive neuroscience fast Natural selection fast Thought and thinking fast Memory / physiology Thinking / physiology Brain / physiology Consciousness / physiology Hersenen gtt Geheugen gtt Denken gtt Cognitieve psychologie gtt Neuropsychologie gtt Medizin Cognitive neuroscience Thought and thinking Cerebral cortex Natural selection Neurophysiologie (DE-588)4041897-2 gnd Denken (DE-588)4011450-8 gnd Kognitiver Prozess (DE-588)4140177-3 gnd Gedächtnis (DE-588)4019614-8 gnd |
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