Interesting article: Residents of the brain: Scientists turn up startling diversity among nerve cells http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/332400/title/Residents_of_the_brain_
"No two cells are the same. Zoom in, and the brain’s wrinkly, pinkish- gray exterior becomes a motley collection of billions of cells, each with personalized quirks and idiosyncrasies." "New results suggest, for instance, that a population of nerve cells in which individual responses to an electrical poke differ can process more information than a group in which responses are the same. " "in addition to losing neurons, the brain would lose diversity, a deficit that could usher in even more damage." I would say this tends to support my view that the idea of replacement neurons or normative behavior modeling is likely to be a dead end as far as functionalism is concerned. It's more appropriate to consider your brain a civilization of individual organisms (only some of which are the conscious 'I') rather than a powerful computer executing complicated instructions. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
