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A Reply to Professors Gould and Yamey

Claire Petitmengin and Michel Bitbol Let ’ s Trust the ( skilled ) Subject ! A Reply to Froese , Gould and Seth

The article by Froese, Gould and Seth is a survey rather than a commentary, dealing with the intertwined issues of the validity of firstperson reports and of their interest for a science of consciousness. While acknowledging that experiential research has already produced promising results, the authors find that it has not yet produced ‘killer experiments’ providing a definitively positive answ...

Genomes, Gould, and Emergence

The publication of the human genome has elicited commentary to the effect that since fewer genes were identified than anticipated, it follows that genes are less important to human biology than anticipated. The flaws in this syllogism are explained in the context of a treatise on how genomes operate and evolve and how genes function to produce embryos and brains. Most of our most cherished huma...

Art - Gould (J)

nature neuroscience • volume 2 no 3 • march 1999 The involvement of the hippocampal formation in learning has been recognized for decades1,2, but the cellular mechanisms underlying this association remain enigmatic. The hippocampal formation produces new neurons throughout adulthood in many vertebrates, from birds to primates3–8; however, although the number of neurons produced is high, the fun...

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