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Constructivism: Can directed mutation improve on classical neural selection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

George N. Reeke
George N. Reeke
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Biological Modelling, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected] www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/reeke/reeke-frame.html
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Abstract

Quartz & Sejnowski (Q&S) find flaws in standard theories of neural selection, which they propose to repair by introducing Lamarckian mechanisms for anatomical refinement that are analogous to directed mutation in evolution. The reversal of cause and effect that these mechanisms require is no more plausible in an explanation of cognition than it is in an explanation of evolution.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 574 - 575
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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