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Neurons and Neuronal Signaling, continued

• Neuronal signals may originate either inside or outside of the nervous system, and can be influenced by a variety of material agents (including chemicals)
• There is some degree of indeterminacy in the generation of neuronal signals
• The organization of the nervous system is influenced by its own activity

From the Reflex Machine to the Adaptive Output/Input/Output Box

Biology 202

• The activity of the nervous system influences both input and interpretation of input

  "input is never into a quiescent or static system, but always into a system which is already excited and organized" ... Karl Lashley, The Problem of Serial Order in Behavior, 1951

• Output creates in the nervous system expectations of input
• Comparison of expectations with actual input facilitates (constitutes?) learning
  • What is essential for learning (as for science) is not getting it right but getting it wrong
  • Implications for education
• Implications for other things ...
  • Nervous system is organized to explore, get it less wrong
  • Harvard Law of Animal Behavior and further implications for research
  • Where is "external world", "reality", "truth", "creating"?

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