Post by mac on Apr 30, 2020 23:40:32 GMT
Some writers have viewed the brain as a computer that passively responds to inputs and processes data, but they seem to forget that it is an active organ, part of a body that is intervening in the world; and has an evolutionary past that has shaped its structure and function. This view of the brain has been outlined by the Hungarian neuroscientist György Buzsáki in his recent book The Brain from Inside Out. According to Buzsáki, the brain is not simply passively absorbing stimuli and representing them through a neural code, but rather is actively searching through alternative possibilities to test various options. His conclusion – following scientists going back to the 19th Century – is that the brain does not simply processs information - it constructs it.
