Neither of these are large enough to be full blog
posts but put together they are both interesting.
2/3/2013
Back in Neuropsychology, Heather, we talked about
something called the homunculus , little man, which is the neurological map of
the body located in the brain (Baars 2010 pg144). When a part of the body is
lost that part still has the neurons in the brain that felt and ran it and they
still can fire. In fact Dr. Vilayanur S.
Ramachandran speculated that the phantom limbs were part perception and part
the surrounding nerves invading those no longer used areas of the brain. This
comes from his book ‘Phantoms in the Brain’
Baars, Bernard J. Gage, Nicole M. (2010) Cognition, Brain, and
Consciousness ‘Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience’. 2nd ed Oxford: Academic Press. ISBN
978-0-12-375070-9
2/10/2013
At
some point, Randi, I came to the conclusion that any good theory has an
explanation, at least seventy percent of the way, in other good theories. After
all, we do not throw away the ideas of Newton to usher in the ideas of
Einstein.
Still,
by understanding that one theory holds echoes of the other we need understand
that as in the world of physics they search for a unified idea so do we in the
searching of an understanding of the mind. In that search we cannot become
believers more than we are questioners looking for the truth. Even when in our
heart the truth is had we need question it to be sure.
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