{"id":87318,"date":"2019-02-02T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-emergent-is-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-02-02T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:42:29","slug":"how-emergent-is-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-emergent-is-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"How Emergent is the Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-emergent-is-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0149763418308315\"><strong>A new paper offers a broad challenge<\/strong><\/a> to a certain kind of \u2018grand theory\u2019 about the brain. According to the authors, Federico E. Turkheimer and colleagues, it is problematic to build models of brain function that rely on \u2018strong emergence\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-emergent-is-the-brain2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6896\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-emergent-is-the-brain2.jpg\" alt=\"dreams\" width=\"318\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/neuroskeptic\/files\/2015\/09\/dreams-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-emergent-is-the-brain2.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px)  100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two popular theories, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_energy_principle\">Free Energy Principle<\/a> aka Bayesian Brain and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integrated_information_theory\">Integrated Information Theory<\/a> model, are singled out as examples of strong emergence-based work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/neuroskeptic\/2019\/02\/02\/emergence-brain\/\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/neuroskeptic\/2019\/02\/02\/emergence-brain\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper offers a broad challenge to a certain kind of \u2018grand theory\u2019 about the brain. According to the authors, Federico E. Turkheimer and colleagues, it is problematic to build models of brain function that rely on \u2018strong emergence\u2019. Two popular theories, the Free Energy Principle aka Bayesian Brain and the Integrated Information Theory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}