--- 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' altloc: - http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~werner/siren_call.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Werner given: Gerhard honourific: M.D. lineage: '' date: 2004 date_type: published datestamp: 2004-07-13 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/37/19 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Poznanski given: Roman honourific: Prof. lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3719 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3719/1/siren_call.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: | attractors, brain state space, cognitive neurophysiology, conditioned motor behavior, naturalism, metaphor lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:38 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: |- the paper is located at: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~werner/siren_call.pdf number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience publisher: World Scientific refereed: TRUE referencetext: Walter Freeman relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:52:58 subjects: - cog-psy - phil-mind - neuro-physio - phil-sci - behav-neuro-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Siren call of Metaphor: subverting the proper task of System Neuroscience' type: journalp userid: 694 volume: ~