Richard,
I tend to agree with you that very little fundamental progress is
being made in linking neuron-level dynamics to cognitive-level
dynamics.
Though it is not my main area of focus (by any means), I have been
developing some specific ideas in this regard, in collaboration with a
neuroscien
Sergio,
Your words sound nice in theory, but that is not the way it is happening
on the ground.
What I tried to say was that neuroscience folks are far too quick to
deploy words like "cognition" and "concepts" and "consciousness"
(apparently as a way to sound impressive) when in fact their
Richard,
I'm not sure your substitutions of words constitute a valid
criticism of the computational neuroscience field. Sure, I may
concede that some of the categories they introduce may suffer
from some serious flaws. But we cannot forget that we still don't
know how the whole neural system work
[Warning. The following is short and brutally frank.]
This first article (which overviews the others) is a typical piece of
neuroscience BS - at least from the point of view of a substantial
number of people in the cognitive science community.
To get an idea why, let me quote to you three
