fMRI: a very critical review, again (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, May 04, 2018, 12:42 (2397 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: This part is active, and we do these things in chess, so that must be what those areas are for. It’s working backward. It’s viewing the brain like a car engine; the idea that each brain region must do one thing and one thing only.
"This approach leads to these wrong conclusions; you see activity in a brain region and assign it a specific function. But it’s completely wrong. Multiple functions are subsumed by multiple areas, which are handled by cognitive networks. It’s very complicated.

DAVID’s comment: […] Gives us some info on how the s/s/c interfaces to use the brain networks.

Three cheers. I hate the compartmentalization theory. The brain is a community of cell communities which all work together. I’d like to know more about the “cognitive networks”. Usual question: does the s/s/c arise out of these networks, or is it part of your God’s consciousness?

Under “Observed memory formation”:

DAVID’s comment: we have evolved from lower animals and they are conscious, but without our consciousness. Our s/s/c has followed these routes of brain connections as we have developed more thinking mind areas. It just shows how the s/s/c interlocks with brain networks.

I would love to know where you draw the line between conscious “lower animals” and robotic, pre-preprogrammed “lower animals”. At the moment we have mice as conscious and ants and weaverbirds as robots. There is no question that the s/s/c interlocks with brain networks. Same question as above: does the s/s/c have its source in the brain networks, or did your God “give it us” and it will pop out again when the brain is dead?