Brain and Behavior Institute, 2002
Session 2
Starting Wherever We Are ... The Brain

Recapitulation and prospectus

Diversity, as a positive benefit
Science as exploration, not "Truth" Story-telling, imagine and reflect, start where are, get "less wrong" and enjoy it
Life as exploration, no "objective", order/emergence from interactivity
Brain (nervous system) = behavior, includes "self", "there isn't anything else?"
Brain as an explorer? (passive or active?)
Education as an exploration? (passive or active?)

Thinking about how the brain (nervous system) works (if Dickinson right)

• From stimulus/response box to semi-autonomous input/output box

Is the real brain (nervous system) actually that way?

• Similar but different in different organisms, at different times
• All neurons, differences in behavior are differences in organization of neurons
  (change organization of neurons, change behavior?)

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