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Brains as Engines of Association - An Operating Principle for Nervous Systems (Hardcover)
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Brains as Engines of Association - An Operating Principle for Nervous Systems (Hardcover)
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Brains as Engines of Association tackles a fundamental question in
neuroscience: what is the operating principle of the human brain?
While a similar question has been asked and answered for virtually
every other human organ during the last few centuries, how the
brain operates has remained a central challenge in biology. Based
on evidence derived from vision, audition, speech and music-much of
it based on the author's own work over the last twenty years-Brains
as Engines of Association argues that brains operate wholly on the
basis of trial and error experience, encoded in neural circuitry
over evolutionary and individual time. This concept of neural
function runs counter to current concepts that view the brain as a
computing machine, and research programs based on the idea that the
only way to answer such questions is by reconstructing the
connectivity of brains in their entirety. This view also implies
that the best way to understand the details of brain function is to
recapitulate their history using artificial neural networks. While
this viewpoint has received support in the last few years from work
showing that computers can win complex games, the brain plays a
much more complex game-the "game" of biological survival-which
Purves concludes is based on trial-and-error experience.
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