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Karl H Pribram. The Form Within
Table of Contents
Prologue. The Quest
Preface. The Form Within
The Cortical Primate
Form as Shape and Form as Pattern
The Story
In Summary
Chapter 1. Correlations
Inaugural Experiments
The Intrinsic Cortex of the Brain
Mapping the Brain
Reporting the Results of My Research
Presenting the Results of Experiments
Beyond Correlation
Chapter 2. Metaphors and Models
An Early Observation
Brain Shapes: Gestalts
More Experiments
A Neurophysiological Test
What the Experiments Did Show
DC Currents and States of Awareness
Perception Revisited
Engaging Lashley
Microprocessing at Last
Brain Waves, Interference Patterns and Holography
What is the Holographic Process?
Try It Yourself
Chapter 3. A Biological Imperative
Brain Patterns
The Retina: Key to Formative Brain Processing
Mapping the Neuro-Nodal Web
The Two Processes That Form Patterns in Our Brains
Flexible Assemblies and Executive Circuits
Chapter 4. Features and Frequencies
An Early Intuition
Encounter at MIT
Feature Detection vs. Feature Extraction
A Show of Hands
What Features Are Featured?
A Symposium in the Roman Tradition
Green Hand Cells
Seeing Colors
Form as Pattern
Waves: A Caveat
Critical Tests
Signs of the Times
Revisiting Geometry and Trigonometry
In Summary
Chapter 5. From Receptor to Cortex and Back Again
Lenses: How Do We Come to Know What Is Out There?
Holography
Fourier’s Discovery
Fourier the Man
FFT: The Fast Fourier Transform
A Retinal Image?
The Aha Experience
Gabor’s Quantum of Information
From Retina to Brain
Implications
Holographic Brainwaves?
Gabor or Fourier?
And Back Again: Projection
In Summary
Chapter 6. Of Objects and Images
Movements
What’s the Difference?
An Act of Faith
An Encounter
Object Constancy
The Form(ing) of Objects
Symmetry Groups
What We Believe We Know
Chapter 7. The Spaces We Navigate and Their Horizons
Navigating the Spaces We Perceive
Eye-Centered and Body-Centered Systems
Nature and Nurture
Mirrors
Objects in the World We Navigate
The Horizons of Our Universe
Chapter 8. Means to Action
At Issue
A Direct Sensory Input to the Motor Cortex
What Must Be
The Reflex
How It All Came About
Biological Control Systems
Controlling the Thermostat
Controlling the Thermostatic Control
Muscles, Movements and Actions
The Act
Reinforcement Revisited
More to Be Explained
The How of Action
A Fortuitous Return to the Motor Cortex
Eureka!
The Particular Go of It
Fixed Action Patterns
A Generative Process
Imitation and Imagination
Speaking
In Summary
Chapter 9. Pain and Pleasure
Shaping the World Within
A Membrane-Shaping Process
Core-Brain Pattern Sensors
The Core-Brain
A New View of the Brain
Odd Bedfellows
The Search for “Pain in the Brain”
Pleasure: Self-Stimulating the Brain
Brain and the Regulation of Thirst
Masochism: A “Thirst” for Pain
In Summary
Chapter 10. The Frontolimbic Forebrain: Initial Forays
The Yale Years
Electrical and Chemical Stimulation of the Limbic Forebrain
Emotions and the Limbic Brain
The Yale-Hartford Laboratories
Functions of the Olfactory Brain
Anatomical Fundamentals
Mistaken Identities
The Prefrontal Cortex
In Summary
Chapter 11. The Four Fs
Surprises
Hit or Run?
Brain Surgery and Social Context
The Fourth F
Basic Instincts
Chapter 12. Freud’s Project
Hello, Freud
The “Project” Reassessed
Resurrection
Freud’s Ideas
Chapter 13. Novelty: The Capturing of Attention
Transfer of Training
Growing Up
Orienting and Familiarization
Something New
Emotions as Hang-ups
Conditioned Avoidance
A Story
What Comes First
What Is Novelty?
Constraints
The Middle Basal Ganglion
Epilepsy
Understanding What I Found
In Summary
Chapter 14. Values
Preferences and Utilities
Desirability and Duration
Preferences
“Concilience”—What It Means
Valuation
The Reversal of Means and Ends
Addiction: A Tyranny of the Future
In Summary
Chapter 15. Attitude
Efficiency: Remembering What Isn’t
Holographic Aspects of Hippocampal Processing
Hippocampal Processing Mediates Novelty and Readiness
Stress
Bringing It All Together
Attitude
The Structure of Attitudinal Patterns
In Summary
Chapter 16. The Organ of Civilization
An Unexpected Finding
The Key
The Topectomy Project
John Fulton
The Yale Lobotomy Project
What, When and How
Proprieties
Practicalities
Priorities
Complexity
The How of Chunking
In Summary
Chapter 17. Here Be Dragons
Aggression
Male Aggression?
The Triune Brain
Sex and the Brain
A “Sinister” Confirmation
The Cultural Context
Chapter 18. Evolution and Inherent Design
Inherent Design
Darwinian Evolution
Forming Complexity
The Theme of Self-Organization
Chapter 19. Remembrance of Things Future
The Form of Memory
Remembering
Memory as Transformation
Plus Ça Change
The Being and Becoming of Electrical Brain Activity
A Useful Metaphor
Crystal Clear? No?
Order Out of Chaos and Autopoiesis
Are We Sleepwalkers?
Remembering as Self-Organization
Boning Up
Learning as Self-Organization
Creating Form in Biology, Brain and Behavior
In Summary
Chapter 20. Coordination and Transformation
Coordinates
The Limitations of Eliminative Materialism
The Limitation of Experimentation
Theses and Hypo-theses
Pythagorean Pitfalls
Fields and Things
Complexity Theory and Formative Causation
Free Will
What Do Brain Processes Look Like?
Coordination as the Basis for Transformation
Transformational Realism
In Summary
Chapter 21. Minding the Brain
Coordinating Mind Talk and Brain Talk
The Challenge
Archetypes
Viewpoints
Action at a Distance
The Power of Names
The Birthing of Psychology as a Science
Remembering
The Roads Not Taken
More on Lashley
A Different Road
My Interpretation
In Summary
Chapter 22. Talk and Thought
Of Monkeys, Gibbons and Great Apes
Is It Language?
Complexity
Neural Networks and Neuro-Nodal Webs
The Unfathomable
How We Use Language
Writing and Reading
Thinking
Some Experiments
Brain Electrical Patterns: The EEG
Deep Thought
Highlights in Forming Talk and Thought
Chapter 23. Consciousness
Begetting Conscious Awareness
Privacy and Primacy
To Summarize
Modes of Awareness
Blind-Sight
The Objective Me
The Narrative I
The Importance of TJ
The Other
To Summarize
Unconscious Processing
The Hidden Navigator
How Unconscious Is Unconscious?
In Summary
Chapter 24. Mind and Matter
From Behaviorism to Phenomenology
Descartes
Fourier
Waves and Their Interference Patterns
The Fourier Diagram
When Matter Doesn’t Matter
On the Other Hand, in Physics . .
Flux and Space-Time
Communication and Matter
Chapter 25. Meaning
The Meaning of Information
An Experiment
An Explanation
What Is Being Sampled
The DADTA
Monkeys Can’t Think?
Sensory Specificity in the “Association” Cortex
Two Meanings of Meaning
Comprehension of Meaning
Appendix A. Minding Quanta and Cosmology
Minding Quanta and Cosmology
Introduction
Observing Quanta
The Brain’s Role in the Making of Observations
Meaning
The Holographic Process
The Brain’s Role in the Making of Theories
Quantum Weirdness
Cosmology
References
Appendix B. As Below, So Above. The Quest
The Two Cultures
So Above
Acknowledgments
