creators_name: Werner, Gerhard editors_name: Poznanski, Roman type: journalp datestamp: 2004-07-13 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:38 metadata_visibility: show title: Siren call of Metaphor: subverting the proper task of System Neuroscience ispublished: inpress subjects: cog-psy subjects: phil-mind subjects: neuro-physio subjects: phil-sci subjects: behav-neuro-sci full_text_status: public keywords: attractors, brain state space, cognitive neurophysiology, conditioned motor behavior, naturalism, metaphor note: the paper is located at: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~werner/siren_call.pdf abstract: Under the assumption that nervous systems form a distinct category among the objects in Nature, applying metaphors of psychological and behavioral science disciplines is flawed and invites confusion. Moreover, such practices obscure and detract from the primary task of Neurophysiology: to investigate the intrinsic properties of nervous systems, uncontaminated with concepts borrowed from other disciplines. A comprehensive fundamental theory of nervous systems is expected to have the character of high dimensional nonlinear systems in which state space transitions, set in motion by external influences, self-organize to dynamic state space configuration with consequences for behavior date: 2004 date_type: published publication: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience publisher: World Scientific refereed: TRUE referencetext: Walter Freeman citation: Werner, M.D. Gerhard (2004) Siren call of Metaphor: subverting the proper task of System Neuroscience. [Journal (Paginated)] (In Press) document_url: http://cogprints.org/3719/1/siren_call.pdf