Controlers In The Brain


	Controlers In The Brain

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6c4098d8-9e38-4569-aaba-6ca84a5c1745/68508118-D36D-4165-8C53-E4587FD3C6FE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.consciousentities.com/" href="http://www.consciousentities.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.consciousentities.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consciousentities.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.consciousentities.com/img/FAD33D3C-8CB9-4970-AE79-E1A381CA2B67" alt="Picture: Fat Controller. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consciousentities.com/"><H3 id="post-57" class="storytitle"><A rel="bookmark" href="http://www.consciousentities.com/?p=57">Controllers in the brain</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consciousentities.com/"><P>Asim Roy insists (<A href="http://wpcarey.asu.edu/pubs/index.cfm?fct=details&article_cobid=2216410&journal_cobid=2216411&Dept=is" title="Connectionism, controllers, and a brain theory." target="_blank"><EM>Connectionism, controllers and a brain theory</EM></A>) that there are controllers in the brain. This is not as sinister as it might sound.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consciousentities.com/"><P>Roy begins by addressing a startlingly radical argument against the notion of controllers in <EM>any</EM> system. He takes up the analogy of  a human being driving a car. The steering and other systems, according to a normal understanding, are controlled by the driver; but, he says, there is an argument that this is the wrong way of looking at it. It’s true that the steering is guided by input from the driver, but there is also feedback to the driver from the various systems of the car, which also determine what the driver does. The current position of the wheel and the response of the car determine how much force the driver applies to the wheel. So really the car is controlling the driver as well as vice versa, and the very idea of a controller within a system is a misapprehension.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/68508118-D36D-4165-8C53-E4587FD3C6FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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