Invertebrate learning and cognition: relating phenomena to neural substrate

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clint J Perry ◽  
Andrew B Barron ◽  
Ken Cheng
Author(s):  
Bartley G. Hoebel ◽  
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Luis Hernandez ◽  
Gregory P. Mark ◽  
Emmanuel Pothos
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2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Valentino ◽  
Jeffrey W. Ladewig

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu

The human brain and the human language are precisely constructed together by evolution/genes, so that in the objective world, a human brain can tell a story to another brain in human language which describes an imagined multiplayer game; in this story, one player of the game represents the human brain itself. It’s possible that the human kind doesn’t really have a subjective world (doesn’t really have conscious experience). An individual has no control even over her choices. Her choices are controlled by the neural substrate. The neural substrate is controlled by the physical laws. So, her choices are controlled by the physical laws. So, she is powerless to do anything other than what she actually does. This is the view of fatalism. Specifically, this is the view of a totally global fatalism, where people have no control even over their choices, from the third-person perspective. And I just argued for fatalism by appeal to causal determinism. Psychologically, a third-person perspective and a new, dedicated personality state are required to bear the totally global fatalism, to avoid severe cognitive dissonance with our default first-person perspective and our original personality state.


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