Where is knowledge stored within the brain and living systems? The concept of monitor-and-act units provides a framework for understanding this. In my last post…
Monitor-and-Act Units as Elements of Intelligence
Lab Talk
Fundamentals of Biological Intelligence
What are the fundamental principles of biological intelligence. Here is a theory that brings together various foundational theories into an integrated framework, one called practopoiesis…
Foundations of Intelligence
What is intelligence? Here are several foundational concepts that help define the descriptive rules of intelligence, not just of the human mind, but in any…
Designing Experiments to Uncover Neuron Intelligence
Intelligence is an adaptive process that requires an environment on which it can act. To uncover if neurons have independent intelligence requires closed loop experiments…
How Intelligent Are Neurons?
If individual neurons were as intelligent as little minions, how would we know? The experimental paradigms today assume they are not, what should we change…
Intelligence and Neuroscience
Intelligence research has been the domain of psychology and sociology and barely intersects with neuroscience. Yet intelligence has everything to do with the brain, and…
Dendrite Complexity and Intelligence
The complex web of dendrites mediating information flow in the brain may be a key driver of human intelligence. In 1887, a Spanish man went…
