Connectionists: How the brain works

[Avi Peled]

Ivan I agree - and even more, neuroscientific application to psychiatry is
even more at its infancy - but unfortunately patients are suffering
immensely and cannot wait - the attached paper tries to tackle the problem
of neuroscientific psychiatry - comments are welcome

Abraham


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Raikov <ivan.g.raikov at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> My summary of the history of physics was quite wrong: the idea of
> infinitesimals and their application has been around since the time of
> Archimedes:
>
> http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/archimedes.html
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal
>
> The moral is, it takes a while for fundamental ideas in science to
> promulgate :-)
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ivan Raikov <ivan.g.raikov at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Speaking of radio and electromagnetic waves, it is perhaps the case that
>> neuroscience has not yet reached the maturity of 19th century physics:
>> while the discovery of electromagnetism is attributed to great
>> experimentalists such as Ampere and Faraday, and its mathematical model is
>> attributed to one of the greatest modelers in physics, Maxwell, none of it
>> happened in isolation. There was a lot of duplicated experimental work and
>> simultaneous independent discoveries in that time period, and Maxwell's
>> equations were readily accepted and quickly refined by a number of
>> physicists after he first postulated them. So in a sense physics had a
>> consensus community model of electromagnetism already in the first half of
>> the 19th century. Neuroscience is perhaps more akin to physics in the  17th
>> century, when Newton's infinitesimal calculus was rejected and even mocked
>> by the scientific establishment on the continent, and many years would pass
>> until calculus was understood and widely accepted. So a unifying theory of
>> neuroscience may not come until a lot of independent and reproducible
>> experimentation brings it about.
>>
>>   -Ivan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Trappenberg <tt at cs.dal.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Some of our discussion seems to be about 'How the brain works'. I am of
>>> course not smart enough to answer this question. So let me try another
>>> system.
>>>
>>> How does a radio work? I guess it uses an antenna to sense an
>>> electromagnetic wave that is then  amplified so that an electromagnet can
>>> drive a membrane to produce an airwave that can be sensed by our ear. Hope
>>> this captures some essential aspects.
>>>
>>> Now that you know, can you repair it when it doesn't work?
>>>
>>>
>


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Abraham Peled M.D.   - Psychiatry
Chair of Dept' SM,  Mental Health Center
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