1. The Blue-Collar Brain
- Author
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Sebastian Wallot, Guy C. Van Orden, and Geoff Hollis
- Subjects
Self-organization ,Physiology ,Mind and body ,mind and body ,lcsh:Physiology ,1/f scaling ,050105 experimental psychology ,Synergetics ,Collar ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Hypothesis and Theory ,Physiology (medical) ,Control ,Psychology ,Medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,lcsh:QP1-981 ,business.industry ,Blue collar ,05 social sciences ,self-organization ,population characteristics ,synergetics ,business ,control ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Much effort has gone into elucidating control of the body by the brain, less so the role of the body in controlling the brain. This essay develops the idea that the brain does a great deal of work in the service of behavior that is controlled by the body, a blue-collar role compared to the white-collar control exercised by the body. The argument that supports a blue-collar role for the brain is also consistent with recent discoveries clarifying the white-collar role of synergies across the body's tensegrity structure, and the evidence of critical phenomena in brain and behavior.
- Published
- 2012