Description - Societies of Brains by Walter J. Freeman
This text reviews the history of the mind-brain problem and demonstrates how the sciences of behavioural electrophysiology and nonlinear dynamics - combined with the latest computer technology - have made it possible for us to observe brains in action. It also provides an answer to the question: "What happens to a stimulus after it enters the brain?". The answer: "The stimulus triggers the construction of a percept and is then washed away". It argues that all that we know is what our brains construct for us by neurodynamics. Brains are not logical devices that process information. They are dynamical systems that create meaning through interactions with the environment and with each other. The book shows how the learning process by which brains construct meaning tends to isolate brains into self-centred worlds and how nature has provided a remedy - first appearing in mammals as a mechanism for pair-bonding - to ensure reproduction of the young dependent on parents. The remedy is based in the neurochemistry of sex which serves to dissolve belief structures in order to open the way for new patterns of understanding and behaviour.
Individuals experience these changes in various ways, such as: falling in love; collegiate introduction; tribal bonding; brain washing; political or religious conversions; and related types of socialization. The highest forms of meaning for humans come through these social attachments.
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