It is proposed that vertebrate brains, especially those of mammals, operate according to an algorithm subsumable as ''synaptic Darwinism''. The key postulate is that genes and synapses follow the same rules, because they act as autocatalytic, hypercyclic, units of selection. Synapses replicate by qu
Hebb in perspective
β Scribed by J. Leo van Hemmen; Walter Senn
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 87
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-1200
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