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In search for an alternative to the computer metaphor of the mind and brain
Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, Paul E. Cisek, Benjamin De Bari +8
The brain-as-computer metaphor has anchored the professed computational nature of the mind, wresting it down from the intangible logic of Platonic philosophy to a material basis fo…
Short and random: Modelling the effects of (proto-)neural elongations
Oltman O. de Wiljes, Ronald A. J. van Elburg, Fred A. Keijzer
To understand how neurons and nervous systems first evolved, we need an account of the origins of neural elongations: Why did neural elongations (axons and dendrites) first origina…
A Behavioural Perspective on the Early Evolution of Nervous Systems: A Computational Model of Excitable Myoepithelia
Ronald A. J. van Elburg, Oltman O. de Wiljes, Michael Biehl +1
How the very first nervous systems evolved remains a fundamental open question. Molecular and genomic techniques have revolutionized our knowledge of the molecular ingredients behi…