Marco Bettoni: Foundations of
Constructivism next
Neurodynamics
- neural mechanism for selective attention and the unity of
brain function that shapes perception
- no fixed relation between patterns of sensory stimuli and patterns
of cortical activity (perception)
- a perceptual system determines for itself what is signal (the
percept) and what is noise, without use of filters
- microscopic input (sensory stimulus) triggers the endogenous construction
of macroscopic spatial pattern of cortical activity (percept)
- the cortical dynamics of perceptual construction is nonlinear and
chaotic at the level of neural masses
- idea of representation: unnecessary, misleading, impedes advances
in brain/mind research
- behaviors are not deterministic responses to stimuli, they express internally
generated (= self-organizing) neural activity