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> That
>different regions of the brain are associated with different aspects of
>mental functioning doesn't mean the brain is somehow generating or directing
>or storing any of this mental existence. The brain knows nothing of what it
>facilitates.
The model which I read (a few years ago now, so maybe it has changed)
suggests that learning results in increased sensitivity at the
synapses, and increased connections among neurons. Thus learning and
experience *directly* change the structure of the brain. Both
Ramachandran in his article about mirror neurons, and John McCrone's
discussion of feral children suggest that it is the accumulated
residue of human cultural experience, learned (or the connections
created via the learning) which creates a brain capable of memetic
action; not just physiology/evolution.
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