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including rational, empathic, imitative, etc. 2. Foster Rich Ethical Interaction and Instruction, with in

0,000 neurons each. Once one has committed oneself to looking at such groups, the next step is to ask how these groups are organized, which leads to Edelman's concept of "maps." A "map," in Edelman's terminology, is a connected set of groups with the property that when one of the inter-group connection

to Hebbian learning between assemblies has been pursued by Nobelist Gerald Edelman in his theory of neuronal group selection, or "Neural Darwinism." Edelman won a Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, which, like most modern immunology, was based on C. MacFarlane Burnet's theory of "clonal selection"

including rational, empathic, imitative, etc. 2. Foster Rich Ethical Interaction and Instruction, with in

50,000 neurons each. Once one has committed oneself to looking at such groups, the next step is to ask how these groups are organized, which leads to Edelman’s concept of “maps.” A “map,” in Edelman’s terminology, is a connected set of groups with the property that when one of the inter-group connections

similar transient assemblies when highly activated. The importance of repeated, slightly varied copies of the same subnetwork has been emphasized by Edelman [Ede93] among other neural theorists. 1 The larger an ensemble is, she suggests, the more vivid it is as a conscious experience; an hypothesis that

ence and human-like embodiment; and partly due to a more specific intuition regarding the value of action for perception, as reflected in Heinz von Foerster's dictum "if you want to see, learn how to act". We suspect there are important cognitive reasons why perception in the human brain centrally involv

as control shifts between competing brain regions, again, based on high-level "cognitive demand." Deacon's intuition is similar to the one that led Edelman to propose Neural Darwinism tEcle931, and Calvin and Bickerton IC13001 to pose the notion of mind as a "Darwin Machine". The latter have given plau

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r-level behaviors like reasoning or subgoaling. • NOMAD (Neurally Organized Mobile Adaptive Device) automata and its successors [K EMI are based on Edelman's "Neural Darwinism" model of the brain, and feature large numbers of simulated neurons evolving by natural selection into configurations that carry

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er-level behaviors like reasoning or subgoaling. e NOMAD (Neurally Organized Mobile Adaptive Device) automata and its successors [KE06] are based on Edelman’s “Neural Darwinism” model of the brain, and feature large numbers of simulated neurons evolving by natural selection into configurations that carry