TY  - BOOK
AU  - Llinás,Rodolfo R.
TI  - I of the vortex: from neurons to self 
SN  - 9780262621632
AV  - QP411 .L56 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Brain
KW  - Neural networks (Neurobiology)
KW  - Evolution
N1  - Originally published: 2001; "A Bradford Book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-293) and index;  	Preface --
Motor Primacy and the Organization of Neuronal Networks: Thinking as Internalized Movement --
1. Setting Mind to Mind --
2. Prediction is the Ultimate Function of the Brain --
3. The Embedding of Universals through the Embedding of Motricity --
4. Nerve Cells and Their Personalities --
5. Lessons from the Evolution of the Eye --
6. The I of the Vortex --
7. Fixed Action Patterns: Automatic Brain Modules that Make Complex Movements --
8. Emotions as FAPs --
9. Of Learning and Memory --
10. Qualia from a Neuronal Point of View --
11. Language as the Child of Abstract Thought --
12. The Collective Mind? --
References --
Index
N2  -  	
"In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the "sea squirt." The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion
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