关键词:
Cognition & reasoning
Brain
Information processing
Flexibility
摘要:
This essay looks closely at Rene Descartes's physiological theory, and especially his theorization of the nerves and the brain as an information-processing system, in order to offer a new interpretation of cognition within his philosophy. Rather than opposing mind and body, Descartes showed how the operations of the soul interrupted the automatic cognitive processes of the body to provide adaptive flexibility for the human organism as a whole. REPRESENTATIONS 124. Fall 2013 (C) The Regents of the University of California. ISSN 0734-6018, electronic ISSN 1533-855X, pages 43-68. All rights reserved. Direct requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content to the University of California Press at http://***/***.