MIND
AN EMERGENT PROPERTY
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A major problem in understanding how the nervous system works deals with the coversion of the physical – nerve structures and impulses – to the psychophysical – sensations and feelings. Somewhere in the nervous system this transition occur to account for characteristics that make us human. One possible mechanism for this elusive even is the concept of emergent properties – The appearance of a property that does not inrtere to, and is not predictable from, the components or modules of a system. The suggestion is made that late Phylogenetic cortical areas constitute the critical components to allow emergence of tituse properties that are uniquely human.
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A major problem in understanding how the nervous system works deals with the coversion of the physical – nerve structures and impulses – to the psychophysical – sensations and feelings. Somewhere in the nervous system this transition occur to account for characteristics that make us human. One possible mechanism for this elusive even is the concept of emergent properties – The appearance of a property that does not inrtere to, and is not predictable from, the components or modules of a system. The suggestion is made that late Phylogenetic cortical areas constitute the critical components to allow emergence of tituse properties that are uniquely human.
About the Author
Dr. Locke practiced Clinical Neurology for over 50 years. He was on the Neurology faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1956 through 2005. He served as acting director of the Neurological unit at Boston City Hospital in 1969. Directed the Neurological unit at Boston State Hospital from 1969 to 1979 and was chief of Neurology at the New England Deaconess Hospital from 1970 through 1988. He has published 85 peer reviewed articles on Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology and clinical Neurology and eight books on Neurological topics.