Philosophical Foundations

[Freddy Offenga]

Sergio Navega wrote:
>This is not enough to drop research in symbolic systems. There has
>been recent evidences from neuroscience that we can find a plausible
>substrate for symbolic manipulation in the brain and that the vision
>that NN more closely resembles our brain's neural organization is
>being contested. What seems to be important is not the behavior of
>a single neuron, but the functional properties of populations of
>neurons.

Can you tell me where I can find the mentioned evidences from
neuroscience for symbolic manipulation in the brain.
Or maybe you can give an example? Thanks.

Freddy Offenga
student Cognitive Science at:
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands