On the representation of objects and their relations in the brain

Braitenberg, C

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-80885-2_15

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On the representation of objects and their relations in the brain

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Braitenberg, C
Former Department Structure and Function of Natural Nerve-Net, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Braitenberg, C. (Ed.). (1974). On the representation of objects and their relations in the brain. In Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System: Proceedings of a Summer School, held at Trieste, August 21-31, 1973 (pp. 290-298). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

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Abstract

Situations within the central nervous system are elusive when we try to render them in anything more abstract than approximate verbal descriptions. A description in terms of ionic movements through cell membranes, for example, might be useful when dealing with information transmission in sense cells but becomes unwieldy if applied to situations involving many neurons of the brain. Attempts at applying the formalism of a logical calculus, inspired by the success of binary algebra in dealing with switching networks, seem to impose a restriction on the working of neurons (e.g. by assuming discrete time) which is not justified by electrophysiology. Occasionally an insight may be gained by reasoning in terms of channel capacity, amount of information and redundancy, but this language again seems more successful in the analysis of peripheral sensory events than in the study of central processes.