There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us

Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by hackinthebochs on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:40AM (#22404921)

This is probably not true. There have been experiments where faces have been reconstructed by measuring the neural responses of monkey's when seeing faces: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40131242

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Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by carapace on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:21PM (#22408022)

Wow, that's cool! Cheers!

I have to adjust me "priors", as a Bayesian might say. Still, monkeys aren't humans, and faces aren't London. Recognizing faces and their expressions has been a thing since faces first evolved, eh?

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Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by hackinthebochs on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:20PM (#22410428)

Place cells have recently made the rounds in popular science which are basically the cognitive topological maps being discussed. The fidelity of these maps remain to be seen. Some examples: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14531 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08550-1

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