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Where thought lives: place or palace?

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Localistic versus distributive processing are seemingly antagonistic views of the central nervous system general function. The issue gives rise to complex philosophical debates that, stemming from the monistic-dualistic everliving debate, invocate justification from anatomical, functional and psychological observations. A brief sketch of the current debates is given.

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  1. Istituto Neuroscienze e Bioimmagini CNR and Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università Statale di Milano, Via Fratelli Cervi, 93, 20090, Segrate (Milan), Italy

    Gabriele E. M. Biella

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  1. DMI, Università di Salerno, 84081, Baronissi (SA), Italy

    Roberto Tagliaferri (Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neural Nets DMI) (Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neural Nets DMI)

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche „E.R. Caianiello“, Università di Salerno, 84081, Baronissi (SA), Italy

    Maria Marinaro (Full Professor in Theoretical Physics) (Full Professor in Theoretical Physics)

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Biella, G.E.M. (2002). Where thought lives: place or palace?. In: Tagliaferri, R., Marinaro, M. (eds) Neural Nets WIRN Vietri-01. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0219-9_35

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