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| Research article summary (published 10 Apr 2002): |
Self-representation in nervous systems.
Full Abstract
The brain's earliest self-representational capacities arose as evolution found neural network solutions for coordinating and regulating inner-body signals, thereby improving behavioral strategies. Additional flexibility in organizing coherent behavioral options emerges from neural models that represent some of the brain's inner states as states of its body, while representing other signals as perceptions of the external world. Brains manipulate inner models to predict the distinct consequences in the external world of distinct behavioral options. The self thus turns out to be identifiable not with a nonphysical soul, but rather with a set of representational capacities of the physical brain.
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Author information
Author/s: Churchland, Patricia S (PS);
Affiliation: Philosophy Department 0119, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. pschurchland@ucsd.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.) (Science), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Apr; vol 296 (issue 5566) : pp 308-10
Dates: Created 2002/04/12; Completed 2002/05/06; Revised 2007/03/19;
PMID: 11951034, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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