Ask A Genius 308 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (2)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/10/02
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Rick Rosner: But it looks like products of mental information processing of cognition are expressed or are constituted by patterns of neurons firing which is the constructivist point of view or that there’s not like a particular node for everything that you think or every particular you know ability you have or every emotion you have the just turns on or off that it’s instead of that you know mental products of any degree of sophistication are constituted by the simultaneous or near simultaneous firing of groups of neurons with each neuron being able to participate in a number of different groups, so it’s not the individual neurons turning on and off.
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