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<font face="Arial">This is a very good point - little research has
been done on complex aspects of brain dynamics that can explain
human behavior. Each subculture has different set of concepts and
their associations that determine the way the see the world.
Neuroscientists cannot test it on rats, psychologists do
behavioral tests but then confabulate to explain results. <br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As the first step
towards understanding "us" and our brains I have </font>just
published a theoretical paper trying to link meme transmission and
formation of conspiracy theories with attractor neural networks:
<p>Duch W. (2021). Memetics and Neural Models of Conspiracy
Theories. <br>
Patterns. Cell Press. DOI:<span> </span><a
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100353"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100353</a></p>
<p>Best, Wlodek Duch</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">W dniu 08.11.2021 o 09:00, Michael
Arbib pisze:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">How can we hope to understand each other when we cannot even understand the brain?
Or more accurately, the variations of brains in diverse bodies growing up in diverse societies .... A long way from the abstractions that have been at the core of this thread.
Michael A. Arbib
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of California at San Diego
Former and Founding Coordinator, Advisory Council, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
Emeritus at the University of Southern California: University Professor; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, & Psychology.
When Brains Meet Buildings: A Conversation Between Neuroscience and Architecture was published by Oxford University Press in August 2021.
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How can we hope to understand the brain when we cannot even understand each other?
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Prof. Włodzisław Duch
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