http://www.neurevolution.net/2007/04/12/history%e2%80%99s-top-brain-computation-insights-day-11/ Chronicling the cognitive revolution in neuroscience Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.neurevolution.net/2007/04/12/history%e2%80%99s-top-brain-computation-insights-day-11/#comment-1303 MT Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:03 +0000 http://www.neurevolution.net/2007/04/12/history%e2%80%99s-top-brain-computation-insights-day-11/#comment-1303 This was a deep "reductionist" moment that I think also must deserve some credit for overturning vitalism and the idea that some "vital force" distinguishes living matter from ordinary matter. Also you might see it as finishing what Galvani started when he touched his statically charged scalpel to an exposed nerve of a dead frog. More than "cognition," H&H's explanation of APs is about what "animates" animals--including us. This was a deep “reductionist” moment that I think also must deserve some credit for overturning vitalism and the idea that some “vital force” distinguishes living matter from ordinary matter. Also you might see it as finishing what Galvani started when he touched his statically charged scalpel to an exposed nerve of a dead frog. More than “cognition,” H&H’s explanation of APs is about what “animates” animals–including us.

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