A theory that does some of the work of the subassembly theory is the theory of “primed neurons” ([43], p. 506 and [71]). We quote (from the former reference): “After an assembly has just been extinguished, many of its neurons will have rece…It might turn out that the theory of primed neurons will be sufficient to explain the workings of the brain, without the assumption of subassemblies, but the latter theory gives the kind of discrete representation that fits in well with the…Sometimes Penfield’s theory is considered to be inconsistent with Hebb’s, but in the present writer’s opinion, the assembly theory is made easier to accept by combining it with this hypothesis of a central control. For the following mechani…
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