oops - did not address my own title!

    Evolutionary Psychology (Brody)
    • Excitable Fields, K/r, and Brian Goodwin by James Brody, 8/4/97
      • Mechanism and Wholism: A Case of 'ISO' Processes? by John Fentress, 10/11/97

    oops - did not address my own title!
    by John F., 10/11/97

    Haste = waste. In previous note, just posted, I used crypitic 'ISO' processes short-hand. What I should have done before pushing the button on my way to a coffee is to explain what the hell I meant!

    ISO = INTERACTIVE/SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS Relevance to Goodwin = His balancing of "excitatory" and "inhibitory" processes in developmental models. I think many of these models work best if excitatory thresholds are lower than inhibitory thresholds. This leads to [abstracted] ideas of excitatory cores that spread with low activation, only to be constricted by higher threshold inhibitory processes. But I went through that saw before.

    Scary how our own personal jargon [here, "ISO"] seems so natural that we (I) can forget to explain what it is about! Apologies.


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