Edelman (1992: 81):
Brain science and the study of behaviour are concerned with the adaptive matching of animals to their environments. In considering brain science as a science of recognition I am implying that recognition is not an instructive process. No direct information transfer occurs, just as none occurs in evolutionary or immune processes. Instead, recognition is selective.
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On Edelman's model of neuroscience, the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS), meanings do not flow into the brain; a labelled environment does not instruct the brain in its categorisation. Instead, impacts on sensory sheets result in the selective matching of neuronal groups to sensorimotor events. This is consistent with the 'immanent' view of meaning on which Systemic Functional Linguistic theory is based. In this view, there are no meanings 'out there' to flow in to the brain. Instead, impacts of the environment on the body are construed as meaning. Edelman's neuroscientific model construes the material and relational processes that underpin the construal of experience as meaning, as proposed by Systemic Functional Linguistic theory.
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