Consider a paradigmatic small dark something moving across a frog’s visual field that causes the frog to stick out its tongue to intercept the thing. If we were to peek inside the frog's brain, we would find multiple interpretations of interpretations between sensory excitation and motor action. My claim is that each physical state can be considered the meaning of prior information processing and that these states inform subsequent neural states that are themselves new meanings. The frog’s visual system interprets incident photons as information about the distance, direction of movement, and speed of the speck. These meanings inform subsequent interpretation as motor action. A frog minimizes immediate interpretation of a speck’s nature so as not to give a fly time to interpret the frogs intentions (a small dark object in the mouth is worth ten files that got away) once the moving something has been intercepted, the frog has ample time to interpret whether the thing is food and what kind of food (using oral rather than visual sensors) and to modify its sensory criteria for future profusions of the tongue. ` Page 288
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Dinesh said:
Malik Raoulda said:
Je vous souhaite de bonnes et joyeuses fêtes a vous et à votre famille.