Reductionists lay claim to the mind

Article Abstract:

Neuroscientists disagree on the ways to use science to tackle the problem of consciousness. Neuroscientists, along with physicists, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists, believe that the problem of consciousness is related to the brain. A scientist, while attempting to save the consciousness from neurobiological reductionism, argues that the brain's functioning cannot be explained by physical laws. The role of neurosciences will decrease with the advancement in the understanding of consciousness.

Neurology, Reductionism, Consciousness

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Syntax for free?

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The origin of syntax resulted from some pre-adaptation of the human brain, where the first-step was the building of a rich lexicon upon a cognitive system predisposed to formulate rules that are able to exploit the underlying combinatorial features of word associations. A simple model in which signals are associated with objects is presented and it is believed that syntactic rules might have emerged from such scale-free network architecture.

Models, Observations, Cognition in children, Cognitive development

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Scaling laws in the drier

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The advantages of monitoring the different scale-free, self-organized spatial patterns in the vegetation of arid ecosystems are explained. The analysis shows that the study can easily help in an early prediction of sudden shifts towards desert conditions.

Science & research, Vegetation dynamics, Desert ecology

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