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Kitajima, M., Toyota, M., & Shimada, H. (2008)

Kitajima, M., Toyota, M., & Shimada, H. (2008). Model Brain: Brain Information Hydrodynamics. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1453.

 

Model Brain: Brain Information Hydrodynamics

At present, there is no research method for viewing the brain from a broad perspective. We suggest that theories of complex systems like fluid are useful. We therefore propose Brain Information Hydrodynamics (BIH) as a theory that should serve as a basis for constructing a Model Brain, which is traditionally conceived as an electronically based neuronal network and / or chemically based hormone field. In BIH, the influx of information from the environment is filtered at the entrance of the brain to reduce the amount of information to a tractable number of chunks. The influx flows along the terrain, which was originally shaped by genes and then transformed through experience. Immediate behavior is generated when the influx reaches the cerebellum directly. Deliberate behavior, the outcome of the cerebrum, is generated when the influx is trapped midway to the cerebellum where a number of vortices are created to transform the values of attributes of the information that the influx is conveyed successively ??to the ones finally exerted??. The real-time constraint of behavior is satisfied by creating emotional vortices that force the flow to reach the cerebellum in a timely manner.

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