🚀 go-pugleaf

I am making availible a paper I have written called "The Basic
Organization of Nervous Activity and the Cognized World".  I would
greatly appreciate comments or criticism!  

Here is the introduction:

#Humans, animals and all organisms are built so that they will quickly
#and reliably detect relevant environmental (as well as internal)
#phenomena, and act appropriately.  This is the essence of cognition.
#The higher animals, especially vertebrates, have evolved brains and
#nervous systems which facilitate cognition of unparalleled complexity,
#scale, sensitivity and speed.
#
#In this paper, I give a brief explanation of how vertebrates have
#achieved this, by reviewing Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's
#framework of "autopoiesis".  I will discuss their treatment of the
#organization and operation of the nervous system, then discuss within
#this context the neurophysiological research of Walter J. Freeman,
#Christine Skarda and their colleagues.  Finally, I will explain how it
#is feasible to envision Mark Johnson's theory of the structure of
#human experience within these terms.  By describing a theory of
#cognition working from the neuronal level up, I will indicate how it
#is possible to correlate the immediate experience of the world with an
#operational explanation of nervous activity.

Please write me if you would like a copy, and specify .dvi or
postscript format (or give me your physical address so I can send you
a hard copy).

Jake.

-- 
Whoever achieves understanding of the baboon will do more for metaphysics 
than Locke did, which is to say he will do more for philosophy in general,
including the problem of knowlege.
							<-- Charles Darwin