Bases Quote by Gerald Edelman

Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either…

— Gerald Edelman

Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse…

— Gerald Edelman

Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the…

— Gerald Edelman

It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those…

— Joaquin Fuster

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Your thoughts are much more powerful than just electric signals between synapses, they affect your life and those around you!

— Senoraroy

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and…

— Joaquin Fuster

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of…

— Gregory Bateson

I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations:…

— Ada Lovelace

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

— Clay Buchholz

“So many synapses,' Drisana said. 'Ten trillion synapses in the cortex alone.' Danlo made a fist and asked, 'What do the synapses look like?'…

— David Zindell