In neuroscience, Walter Freeman (1927-) is an American neuroscientist philosopher note for []
Overview
In 1995, Freeman, in his Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate, argued that brain cells and or cortical patterns are analogs of Benard cell formation formed from thermodynamic fluctuations; the following is an example view: [1]
“Each cortical pattern is a dissipative structure emergent from a microscopic fluctuation.”
Freeman’s neurological Benard cell theories are utilized in the emergence teleology theories of both Cuban-born American philosopher Alicia Juarrero and American neurological anthropologist Terrence Deacon. [2]
References
1. Freeman, Walter J. (1995). Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate (pg. 51). Erlbaum.
2. (a) Juarrero, Alicia. (1999). Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (pg. 7). MIT Press.
(b) Deacon, Terrence W. (2011). Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (pgs. 502-03). W.W. Norton & Co.
Further reading
● Skarda, C.A. and Freeman, Walter J. (1987). “How Brains Make Chaos in Order to Make Sense of the World”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10:161-95.
External links
● Walter Jackson Freeman III – Wikipedia.
● Walter J. Freeman – MachinesLikeUs.com.
