fMRI: a very critical review, again (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 04, 2018, 16:37 (2183 days ago) @ dhw

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.

dhw: 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?

I view the s/s/c as having to use these cognitive networks. I think iti spart of God's consciousness

dhw: 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.

dhw: 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?

Instincts exist at all levels of development, but I am sure ants, weaverbirds and mice are conscious. I view some instincts as learned behavior when they are simple and some as given instincts by God when they are too complex for simple adaptation. Of course God gave us consciousness which survives brain death.