The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations Of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction And Vagueness

Preface. 1: Scaling in Nervous Networks. 1.1. The mammalian neocortex. 1.2. Complexity in brain and behavior. 1.3. The shape of limbed animals. 2: Inevitability of Illusions. 2.1. Visual inferences. 2.2. A simple latency correction model. 2.3. Explaining the geometrical illusions. 2.4. Further directions for latency correction. 3: Induction and Innateness. 3.1. Paradigm Theory. 3.2. Applications. 3.3. "Solution" to riddle and theory of innateness. 4: Consequences of a Finite Brain. 4.1. Vagueness, the phenomenon. 4.2. Unseeable holes in our concepts. 4.3. From theory to vagueness. 4.4. Discussion. Bibliography. Index.