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  1. Functional complexity in organisms: Parts as proxies. [REVIEW]Daniel W. McShea - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (5):641-668.
    The functional complexity, or the number of functions, of organisms hasfigured prominently in certain theoretical and empirical work inevolutionary biology. Large-scale trends in functional complexity andcorrelations between functional complexity and other variables, such assize, have been proposed. However, the notion of number of functions hasalso been operationally intractable, in that no method has been developedfor counting functions in an organism in a systematic and reliable way.Thus, studies have had to rely on the largely unsupported assumption thatnumber of functions can be (...)
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  • The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction and Vagueness.Mark A. Changizi - 2004 - Synthese 141 (2):277-285.
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  • Adaptability of innate motor patterns and motor control mechanisms.M. B. Berkinblit, A. G. Feldman & O. I. Fukson - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (4):585-599.
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  • Why is brain size so important:Design problems and solutions as neocortex gets biggeror smaller. [REVIEW]Jon H. Kaas - 2000 - Brain and Mind 1 (1):7-23.
    As bridges or brains become bigger or smaller, the changes pose problems of design thatneed to be solved. Larger brains could have larger or more neurons, or both. With largerneurons, it becomes difficult to maintain conduction times over longer axons andelectrical cable properties over longer dendrites. With more neurons, it becomes difficultfor each neuron to maintain its proportion of connections with other neurons. Theseproblems are addressed by making brains more modular, thereby reducing the lengths ofmany connections, and by altering functions. (...)
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  • Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior.Patricia M. Greenfield - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):531-551.
    During the first two years of human life a common neural substrate underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as the capacity to combine objects manually, including tool use. Subsequent cortical differentiation, beginning at age two, creates distinct, relatively modularized capacities for linguistic grammar and more complex combination of objects. An evolutionary homologue of the neural substrate for language production and manual action is hypothesized to have provided a foundation for the evolution of language (...)
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  • Vagueness, rationality and undecidability: A theory of why there is vagueness.Mark A. Changizi - 1999 - Synthese 120 (3):345 - 374.
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  • (1 other version)Mathematica's first academic monograph.Mark Changizi - 2002 - Complexity 8 (2):63-65.
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  • A New Kind of Science.Stephen Wolfram - 2002 - Wolfram Media.
    NOW IN PAPERBACK"€"Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments"€"illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics"€"Stephen Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe.
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  • A New Kind of Science.Stephen Wolfram - 2002 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 10 (1):112-114.
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  • The Brain From 25000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Innateness and Vagueness.Mark A. Changizi - 2003 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    This book is a must-read for researchers interested in taking a high-level, non-mechanistic approach to answering age-old fundamental questions in the brain ...
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