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Wherein I describe the experimental results that provided substance to the self-organizing processes in the brain.

In 1957 it was possible to say . . . ‘these considerations also lead us to the suggestion that much of normal nervous function occurs without impulses but is mediated by graded activity.’ . . . I referred to Gerard (1941) who influenced me most in this view which remained for a long time ignored in the conventional orthodoxy. I propose that a ‘circuit’ in our context of nervous tissue is an oversimplified abstraction. . . . that, in fact there are many types of signals and forms of response, often skipping over neighbors—and acting upon more or less specific classes of nearby or even remote elements. Instead of the usual terms ‘neural net’ or ‘local circuit’ I would suggest we think of a neural throng, a form of densely packed social gathering with more structure and goals than a mob.

—T. H. Bullock, 1981