The brain from 25,000 feet : high level explorations of brain complexity, perception, induction and vagueness /

In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Changizi, Mark A. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, [2003]
Series:	Synthese library ; v. 317.
Subjects:	Neurosciences. Neural networks (Neurobiology) Neural networks (Computer science) Visual perception. Computer vision. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
1: Scaling in Nervous Networks. 1.1. The mammalian neocortex
1.2. Complexity in brain and behavior
1.3. The shape of limbed animals
2: Inevitability of Illusions
2.1. Visual inferences
2.2. A simple latency correction model
2.3. Explaining the geometrical illusions
2.4. Further directions for latency correction. 3: Induction and Innateness
3.1. Paradigm Theory
3.2. Applications
3.3. "Solution" to riddle and theory of innateness
4: Consequences of a Finite Brain
4.1. Vagueness, the phenomenon
4.2. Unseeable holes in our concepts
4.3. From theory to vagueness
4.4. Discussion
Bibliography
Index.