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By Alain Berthoz
At the start of the twentieth century, German biologist Jakob von Uexküll created the idea that of "Umwelt" to indicate the surroundings as skilled by means of a topic. this idea of setting differs from the assumption of passive atmosphere and is outlined not only by way of actual atmosphere, yet is quite a "subjective universe", an area weighted with that means. at the present time, neuroscience presents a brand new method to examine the brain’s strength to create a illustration of the realm. whilst behavioural experts are demonstrating that animals have a richer psychological universe than formerly recognized. Philosophical mirrored image hence reveals itself with extra experimental and aim information in addition. approximately a century after the ebook of von Uexküll’s founding paintings ("Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere" was once released in 1909), neurobiologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, ethologists, and philosophers revisit his mail suggestion on the gentle of contemporary science
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Although at this early stage it must be quite simple in its form, the above suggests a hypothesis regarding the overall organization of brain function. This hypothesis rests on two tenets. , the LGN and visual cortex). The specific system is understood to comprise those nuclei, whether sensorimotor or associative, that project mainly, if not exclusively, to layer IV in the cortex. Second, following optimal activation, any such thalamocortical loop would tend to oscillate at gamma-band frequency and activity in the “specific” thalamocortical system could be easily “recognized” over the cortex by this oscillatory characteristic.
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From a different perspective then, the hypothesized hierarchical connectivity matrix fails to explain how their unique “perceptual insights” (the specific elements in a given category) are communicated to the rest of the nervous system; how do grandmother cells tell the rest of the neurons what they know, given their unique position at the top of a hierarchy? Alternatively, since categorizations are generated by spatial mapping of the primary sensory cortices and their associated cortical structures, a more dynamic interaction based on temporal coherence may generate dissipative functional structures (Llin´as and Par´e 1996) capable of as rapid a change as the perception they generate.