Tag: Concept cells

Neuron cell close-up 3D rendering illustration with nervous impulses along dendrites, axon, soma and nucleus. Neuronal brain activity, neuroscience, neurology, anatomy, medicine concepts.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 22, 2025

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Carlyn Zwarenstein, Concept cells, Cory Miller, Elizabeth Buffalo, Florian Mormann, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

Does Our Humanity Really Depend on “Concept Cells”?

_{A recently discovered type of brain cell, thought to be unique to humans, codes for a variety of types of information around a single concept} _{Denyse O'Leary
April 22, 2025

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

It’s a lot to ask of one type of cell, however unique, that it be what makes humans more intelligent than chimpanzees and that it create language.

A detailed visualization of a human brain with glowing nodes representing neural connections and brain activity, symbolizing neurological science, cognitive function, and advanced biological research

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Michael Egnor
Date
March 9, 2025

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Alan McComas, Alzheimer's disease, Concept cells, Consciousness as concept, Hippocampus and memory, Pineal gland, Rene Descartes, Soul (classical view)}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Reductionism is nonsense, and “consciousness” is not nestled in clusters of neurons} _{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The higher human ability to think abstractly — to reason and will freely — are not physical abilities and do not come from the brain.