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THE USE OF REPRESENTATION AND FORMALISM IN A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE

GILBERT A. CHAUVET

Laboratoire Développement et Complexité, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 41, rue Gay-Lussac, Paris 75005, France

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219635205000847Cited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In the light of existing physical theories, it is shown that representation in terms of functional interactions and formalism (S-Propagators) should satisfy three physical and six biological constraints. Consequences are summarized for neurohormonal field, developmental phase, aging phase, functional hierarchy, Principle of Auto-Associative stability (PAAS), self-organization and neural selection, Darwinian evolution, and the intelligence of movement. Abstraction and complexity of the proposed theories are discussed relatively to their advantages for integrative neuroscience.

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