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At the beginning of the

Submitted by nafisam on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 5:21am.
At the beginning of the semester, I was a proponent of the stimulus/response model, but with this new knowledge of efference copy and corollary discharge, this model is becoming increasingly obsolete. The stimulus/response model does not account for the independence and self propagation of the nervous system, and frankly does not give credit where credit is due. As humans I'm not sure if we spend most of our time responding to inputs from our environment, or if we are just contained within our nervous system and only respond to our own inputs and just keep the reafferent loop going. Is there such a thing as being too involved in your nervous system? Does this account for disorders such as dissociative identity disorder?

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