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Olufemi.Nazsira's picture

Input/Output::Stimulus/Response?

The notion that our nervous system is merely interconnected boxes with different inputs/outputs does not sit well with me because not only does it seem overly simplistic, it also strikes me as an extremely mechanical approach to the interworkings of connote that these criteria are finite, where as the stimulus/response concept has a fluidity about it that is appealing in its openendedness. The only thing then is whether we choose to adapt the input/output theory or stimulus/response, where are the inputs/stimuli derived from? Surely nervous system is just as much a point of origin as the outside world. 

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