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My feeling is that the "myth" they're trying to debunk is that there are rigid, "bright-line" separations between different brain regions, and that specifics re
by mindcrime 5y ago
My feeling is that the "myth" they're trying to debunk is that there are rigid, "bright-line" separations between different brain regions, and that specifics regions are completely and uniquely responsible, for now and forevermore, for some specific "thing". Where the reality is that there is structure, but the lines are fuzzier, functionality overlaps, and neural plasticity allows for brain region to alter their function (to some extent) over time.
- neuronic 5y agoYes, the mental image I got is a sort of Venn diagram of overlapping networks. In any sort of processing, more or less the whole brain is involved and one subset of the network isn't involved in only one thing, but possibly specialized for a few. I suppose one should also account for a sort of neurological "noise floor" where noise means general background predictive activity. Your brain is always (trying to be) doing something all over, independent of sensory input, which becomes really apparent with the Ganzfeld experiment [1] without the bunk about "psi" and that esoteric BS. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment