<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Great citation. Thanks, Frank.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">G.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 17, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" class="">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">"Since the last third of the twentieth century, the whole tenor of neurology and Neuroscience has been moving towards such a dynamic and constructional view of the brain, a sense that even at the most Elementary levels--as, for example, in the "filling in" of a blind spot or a scotoma or the seeing of a visual illusion, as both Richard Gregory and V. S. Ramachandran have demonstrated--the brain constructs a plausible hypothesis or pattern or scene. In his theory of neuronal group selection, Gerald Edelman--drawing on the data of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, of embryology and evolutionary biology, of clinical and experimental work, and of synthetic neural modeling--proposes a detailed neurobiological model of the mind in which the brain's Central role is precisely that of constructing categories--first perceptual then conceptual--and VB of an ascending process of "bootstrapping" where through repeating recategorization at higher and higher levels, consciousness is finally achieved. This, for Edelman, every perception is a creation and every memory a re-creation or recategorization.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Such categories, he feels, depend on the "values" of the organism, those biases and dispositions [partly innate, partly learned] which, for Freud, were characterized as "drives", "instincts" and "affects." The attunement here between Freud's view and Edelman's is striking; here, at least, one has the sense that psychoanalysis and neurobiology can be fully at home with one another, congruent and mutually supportive. And it may be that in this equation of Nachtra:glichkeit with "recategorization" we see a hint of how the two seemingly disparate universes--the universes of human meaning and of natural science--may come together."<div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">-----------------------------------<br class="">Frank Wimberly<br class=""><br class="">My memoir:<br class=""><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly" class="">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br class=""><br class="">My scientific publications:<br class=""><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br class=""><br class="">Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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