From: Tennessee Leeuwenburg (tennessee@tennessee.id.au)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 07:13:40 MDT
Further argument for the idea that consciousness can arise from many
structures.
On 7/6/06, Michael Vassar <michaelvassar@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, here are much better articles. Obviously, the recovery is far
> from total. It's probably very premature to see whether any major
> behavioral adaptations have been lost. This is complicated by the fact
> that
> a mature brain may have all sorts of connections all over which might
> encourage relatively normal behaviors to emerge even if the structures
> originally bringing those connections about are lost. Think of how long
> it
> took to determine that lobotomy seriously impaired people's practical
> functionality.
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/03/brain.recovery.ap/
> http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1475825
>
> >From: "Michael Vassar" <michaelvassar@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: sl4@sl4.org
> >To: sl4@sl4.org
> >Subject: neural plasticity
> >Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:03:29 -0400
> >
> >
> >This is a strange article. It suggests that neural plasticity is much
> >greater than I had expected, and that adaptations related to the
> >neurological functions relevant to basic cogntion are surprisingly
> >self-organizing and are almost exclusivley at the microscopic level of
> >neural columns rather than the regional level. Of course, we don't know
> >how normal this guy's behavior will now be.
> >
> >
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9474-rewired-brain-revives-patient-after-19-years.html
> >
> >
>
>
>
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