Yohan John 🤖🧠Have neuroscientists ever provided evidence for #3 and #5?
These are Fodor's criteria for modularity of a process.
Anastasia Christakou@DrYohanJohn the modularity of what is in question here?
If of 'brain function', then hormone regulation is an example, but I am not sure I understand the question.
If of 'brain function', then hormone regulation is an example, but I am not sure I understand the question.
I am not a big fan of the use of "modularity" to mean "function localization". I think Fodor's usage is much closer to how modularity is used in engineering and design. Roughly, a system is modular if you can remove a module and replace it with an analogous (or improved) module without having to tinker with the rest of the system.
In programming, code is modular if you can independently develop functions.
@DrYohanJohn you can remove hormone regulation from the brain and replace it with drugs...
I am missing why this is important though, and I am still not clear which modularity you want to test (I suspect you mean the mind rather than the brain?).
You are subtooting again, aren't you 😅
I am missing why this is important though, and I am still not clear which modularity you want to test (I suspect you mean the mind rather than the brain?).
You are subtooting again, aren't you 😅
We are all subconsciously subtooting. 😛
Importance is in the eye of the beholder. I think there is sloppy use of terminology in neuroscience that influences experimental design, interpretation and popular discussion of the brain and/or mind.
For example, I used to field a lot of questions on Quora from people who wanted to remove their amygdalae. This is in part because of cartoonish depictions of structure-function relationships in the brain.
Steve Gisselbrecht@DrYohanJohn @christakou
Whenever I talk with people about what different brain regions "do," I try to remember always to disclaim first of all that the only thing a part of the brain can do in isolation is die, and rather quickly, at that.
Whenever I talk with people about what different brain regions "do," I try to remember always to disclaim first of all that the only thing a part of the brain can do in isolation is die, and rather quickly, at that.