Chapter 5-7 - Olivier and Mazi

The response of neurons, being very context sensitive, demonstrate that emergent properties are fundamental to the operation of the brain. The study of these neural states has shown that neural characteristics localized far from each other have an impact on the global state. Therefore, you cannot simply seperate the functionning of the brain in local activity. These local behaviors play a large role on the golbal behavior. This also shows that the brain is very cooperative in its different regions. Region A connects with region B, and region B then connects to region A. Local patterns are coherent with global patterns of different sections of the brain. Therefore, a local pattern taken individually has no meaning until considered in the bigger scheme.

The mind and world have to be considered as being dependent of each other. The cartesian anxiety is the result of trying to find a pregiven world that is independent of the human mind and experience. This pregiven world cannot be found. A world independent of representations can be considered as being another of our representations. The brain works with self-modifying processes and we must consider the world as being dependent of these processes. This is a system with operational closure: the result of processes are these processes themselves.