Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication

.There remains considerable controversy about how the brain operates. This review focuses on brain activity rather than just structure and on concepts of action and actionability rather than truth conditions. Neural Communication is reviewed as a crucial aspect of neural encoding. Consequently, logi...

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Main Author: Jerome Arthur Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01457/full
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description .There remains considerable controversy about how the brain operates. This review focuses on brain activity rather than just structure and on concepts of action and actionability rather than truth conditions. Neural Communication is reviewed as a crucial aspect of neural encoding. Consequently, logical inference is superseded by neural simulation. Some remaining mysteries are discussed.
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Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
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representation
simulation
fitness
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actionability
title Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
title_full Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
title_fullStr Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
title_full_unstemmed Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
title_short Actionability and Simulation: No Representation without Communication
title_sort actionability and simulation no representation without communication
topic representation
simulation
fitness
experience
Neural Code
actionability
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01457/full
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