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>> What matters is that there
> > is a consistent mapping between the distal stimulus and the neural
> > signal in the brain. (A pair of goggles made by Jim Matiya provide a
> > nice demonstration of this.) The analogy I use is that if you were
> > receiving a morse code signal, it wouldn't matter to you whether the
> > sender had the signal box upside down or right side up - it's only the
> > code that matters. Am I explaining this correctly, or is the book
> > correct?
> >
> > David Kreiner
> > Professor of Psychology
> > Central Missouri State University
> > Warrensburg MO 64093
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Your counter-example is really modest.
In fact, it wouldn't matter to the situation
considered whether the sender had the signal
box upside down or right side up and it does
not matter also if the sender send the "right
code" (morse). In fact, your sender can use any
"code", any box, and also he can send the
"code" by any means and also he can send the signal
with any sequence of bits (pieces of information)...
Because the brain will ever renormalize the sequence
of sensorial inputs to the better internal adaptation to
the external sent "image".
This will occur in selective basis: the neural nets are
"genetically prepared" to optimize any type of stimuli
they find in the natural environment (it means: ANY
type of stimuli of any environment: one subtype however
can be easier than others to assimilate due to the natural
selection in the evolutionary "natural" environment).
For instance, if you try the famous experience of the
inverted lens (glasses), the subject (usually an unlucky
first semester student of psychology) will "see" normally
after only two weeks. His brain will correct the image
after a continuos (but finite) automatic and uncounscioness
attempts to understand the new visual environment
(the multiple drafts of Dennet).
Regards from the JUNGLE
Ricardo Holmer Ohara "Hod"_ BRASIL
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