Brain, mind and modern human identity – dilemmas and solutions

• Authors: Maciej Błaszak
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Human brain is “the perfect guessing machine” (James V. Stone (2012) Vision and Brain, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, p. 155), trying to interpret sensory data in the light of previous biases or beliefs. Bayesian inference is carried out by three complex networks of the human brain: salience network, central executive network, and default mode network. Their function is analysed both in neurotypical person and Attention Deficit Disorder. Modern human being having predictive brain and overloaded mind must develop social identity, whose evolution went probably through three stages: social selection based on punishment, sexual selection based on reputation, and group selection based on identity.

Keywords

EN

predictive mind; bayesian brain; salience network; central executive network; default mode network; human cognitive evolution

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-03-23

Contributors

author

Maciej Błaszak