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Why do we NOT think so? It must be capable of thinking alone, as only mammals have the neocortex. It would only be logical to expect the more universal cognitive abilities to happen in the cerebellum, and only those that are specific to mammals alone to happen in the neocortex.
If you're curious about the pronunciation of Purkinje like me: In Czech, [purkɪɲɛ] (spelled Purkyně); in English, per-kin-jee [/pɝkɪnd͡ʒiː/]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MFfOsTDIs
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It is always funny to see brain metaphors morph to resemble our current stage of technological development, as the years go by. First it was anima, or hydraulic analogies of spirits and fluid moving through the body. Then it was clocks, the mechanistic processes of the brain. And so on and so on until today we metaphorize the brain to be like computer hardware. In vogue as well is comparing it to neural networks, due…
In all honesty, I believe the reverse is true. Our technology seems modeled after humans and the environment we inhabit. Airplanes being glorified birds, wheels being glorified feet, computers being glorified brains or neural networks...well.
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I can't help thinking that this is where humanity is heading. Given that the different parts of the brain have to compete for resources and given what the cerebellum does, it makes sense that a lesser developed one can be an advantage: It frees up resources for parts of the brain that are more important in our times.
Human society provides nowhere enough pressure for evolution to have effect (for good reasons), and our humanity timeline is nowhere near lengthy enough so far either. So I don’t think we are heading anywhere in that regards
Why must mental functions be localized to physical components?
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In all honesty, I believe the reverse is true. Our technology seems modeled after humans and the environment we inhabit. Airplanes being glorified birds, wheels being glorified feet, computers being glorified brains or neural networks...well.
It's hard to imagine two objects in the vehicle-ground-interface conceptual space much farther away from one another than feet and wheels.
Note that time perception is distorted so that we don't notice how slow conscious response is.
So the feeling of "competence" is when your cerebellum is anticipating correctly.