🧠 Check this out - a talk Walter Freeman III gave in Australia back in 2000 called "Direction by Limbic Dynamics Based in Reafference of Intentional Movements Through Space-time".
His dad was the ice pick guy, but *this* Walter did some incredible work on nonlinear dynamics worth revisiting! 👇
@nataliepeluso Walter Freeman III is amazing! I took a seminar with him 10 years ago and got inspired to study neuroscience. He had such a deep sense of how neuroscience and philosophy interact, although he integrates the fields so well I found it hard to fully parse what he says.
I still think about his rabbit studies where he showed the amplitude modulation pattern throughout the cortex is stable when sniffing a smell, but changes upon learning new smells. I haven't found much follow-up of studies at the level of the whole cortex like that.
@MolemanPeter I'd be curious to hear what you took away from those. I find it hard to piece together his philosophy still.
Sorry, @neurolili that is too much even for a toot of 500 words or a thread. I am writing a book where his ideas are incorporated. But it will take some time before it is finished. (Provisional title: Our brain, the body of the mind)
@neurolili that is so cool, Lili! I will look up that study, too - sniffs and olfaction generally have been on my radar all week 👃
@neurolili @nataliepeluso He is one of my "How does the brain work" heros. Read his Freeman WJ (1999): Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality. Journal of Consciousness Studies 6:143–172.
Freeman WJ (2000): How Brains Make up their Minds. New York, Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-231-12008-1. It is as if he wrote it yesterday. #neuroscience