I admit I was musing there might be higher level conserved constructs, like 
ones for infatuation.
Things that humans take seriously, but might not amount to much.  

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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration

Right. But what's missing, what makes it a fallacy, is the lack of an estimate 
for that "decent chance" ... along with any details about the encoding 
mechanism. Even with common ontogenic pathways, we have to consider 
neuropolasticity and its limits. Dave's reference to lesions "eliminating" some 
function or another have to reference neuroplasticity even if only to eliminate 
it as a possibility. If it's true that some relatively large percentage of the 
population has mirror capability across the hemispheres, then burning/vibrating 
lesions on one side may or may not eliminate the function (controlling for the 
bilateral/mirrored population).

To be clear, I'm not doubting that such compositions *can* be done. I'm only 
objecting to the confidence with which we assert them. The world is full of 
mansplainers telling us they know what's going on and to simply trust them. 
Pffft. As a natural born citizen who's unlikely to be deported, I feel OK 
challenging such mansplaining. 8^D

On 3/26/25 11:32 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> My understanding is that neural architecture for things like hearing and 
> vision follows a common developmental trajectory if there aren’t faults like 
> the cochlea being damaged.
> An image of a circle would have a decent chance of having a similar encoding 
> in different people, but a picture of a dog maybe not so much.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:00 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration
> 
> But ... again:
> 
> "predictive modeling on short datasets acquired in single patients"
> 
> We're not *composing* the individuals into groups, as Dave (and McGilchrist) 
> seem to be doing. We're modeling individuals off data taken from individuals. 
> I'm a bit confused that I have to point this out.
> 
> 
> On 3/26/25 8:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> This comes to mind..
>>
>> https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/15/releases-20230811/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:27 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration
>>
>> This is the driver for my doubt. Last I paid attention, the inter-individual 
>> variation for activation circuits swamped the intra-individual variation. So 
>> within one person, we might be able to make reliable predictions. But this 
>> idea that "regions of the brain" are activated in the same way, for the same 
>> tasks, across all (or most) people is suspect. Extraordinary claims require 
>> extraordinary evidence.
>>
>> On 3/25/25 2:52 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>    Can Steve’s training read my mind?  That’s my guess – we’re all sort of 
>>> the same with the same kind of encoding and decoding mechanisms.
>>>
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