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Abstract
Based on contextualism, various forms of plasticity, degeneracy, neural reuse, redundancy, massive combinatorial connectivity, highly distributed functional and coordinated interactions, etc., there is growing evidence that brain processes involve multiscale overlapping networks and that the mapping between such neural processes and cognitive functions and the content of experience is many-to-many. The brain is best viewed not in computational or modular terms, but in terms of overlapping, spatiotemporally widely distributed, and functionally integrated multiscale dynamical networks. Such processes involve mutually inextricable, overlapping, and interconnected local-to-global and global-to-local determination relations.

Bio
Michael Silberstein is Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, and a Core Neuroscience Faculty member. His primary research interests are foundations of physics, foundations of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness. He is also interested in how these branches of philosophy and science bear on more general questions of reduction, emergence, and explanation. His two most recent books with OUP are Emergence in Context (2022) and Einstein’s Entanglement: Bell Inequalities, Relativity, and the Qbit (2024).

Informações
O seminário será realizado presencialmente, mas será possível assistir também em videoconferência, via Zoom.

Link Zoom
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Sala
Ciências ULisboa, Edifício C8, Sala 8.2.10

Contacto
cfculcomunica@fc.ul.pt