Book chapter · Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series · January 25, 2017
Mind and Matter: Why It All Makes Sense
Leonard Johard, Vittorio Lippi, Larisa Safina, Manuel Mazzara
Abstract
A purely reductionist approach to neuroscience has difficulty in providing intuitive explanations and cost effective methods. Following a different approach, much of the mechanics of the brain can be explained purely by closer study of the relation of the brain to its environment. Starting from the laws of physics, genetics and easily observable properties of the biophysical environment we can deduce the need for dreams and a dopaminergic system. We provide a rough sketch of the various a priori assumptions encoded in the mechanics of the nervous system. This indicates much more can be learnt by studying the statistical priors exploited by the brain rather than its specific mechanics of calculation.
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