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Motivated by the question how our brain might work, we have gone a long way through the design of our “improved matchbox algorithm” that finally even served as a model for human behavior. But this whole construction is only a speculation, it is not a fact (although en route we learned some “real” facts about the brain). So what do we get out of all these constructions?
I simply believe that some part of the human self or soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. C. G. Jung
There is no separate soul or life-force to stick a finger into the brain now and then and make neural cells do what they would not otherwise. D. O. Hebb, 1949
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Palm, G. (1982). Why All These Speculations?. In: Palm, G. (eds) Neural Assemblies. Studies of Brain Function, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81792-2_16
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