In article <31AE40BB.3386 at U.Washington.edu>,
"William H. Calvin" <WCalvin at U.Washington.edu> wrote:
>The "second act" of THE CEREBRAL CODE starts with these two epigrams:
>>"I suggest that memory is organized with a framework of motor programs
>within the brain. Far from being a black box of no relevance to
>behaviorist psychology, the brain is a jack-in-the-box, filled to the
>brim with spring-loaded plans of action. As such it is the very
>wellspring of all behavior. These brain-mind behavior programs, like
>sensory representations, are virtual — and they have even been called
>"fictive" to capture their promissory aspect — but they are no less
>real. In our being and becoming, they are us and we are they."
> J. Allan Hobson, 1994
I wonder if Hobson has not derived that from some of my material!!!
Cl
>>> "Rejection [of the idea that mental events have no locus] by
>common sense, for whatever reason, proves nothing. Other fields of
>science are built on propositions that may seem absurd but in fact are
>true. (Air is heavy, has weight? Water is made up of two gases? The
>continents are adrift in the oceans?)"
> Donald O. Hebb, 1980
>>The citations are in the end notes:
>http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcalvin/bk9notes.html#Intermission
