I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
of Rodolfo R. Llinás
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In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the mindness state evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the sea squirt. The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion that receives sensory information about the surrounding environment. As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object then digests most of its own brain. This suggests that the nervous system evolved to allow active movement in animals. To move through the environment safely, a creature must anticipate the outcome of each movement on the basis of incoming sensory data. Thus the capacity to predict is most likely the ultimate brain function. One could even say that Self is the centralization of prediction.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 302 pages
- Publisher MIT Press (MA)
- Publication Date April 2nd 2001
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780262122337
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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