Carlos von der Becke y Oscar García- Cascades IV

CONCLUSIONS.

1. Studying behavioral cascades, one can interpret inputs to the cascades, non-equilibrium phase transitions and outputs, as part of a general lechatelierian explanation. This interpretation seems a rich contribution to clarifify brain processes and behaviors.

2. Reducing around a hundred of Beer's artificial bug's neurons to five, a main behavioral Le Chatelier-like cascade can be identified when in actual operation. It shows itself as a special kind of biological clock. The main cyclic contributors are walking, food arousal, eating and (sometimes) satiety arousal elements.

3. Applying traditional factorial experiment analysis, the previous cascade is interpreted as showing nested and sometimes hidden subcascades and sub- sub-cascades of behaviors. A most discriminatable non-equilibrium phase transition, is also mathematically clearly recognized.

4. It is proved that with just three marking neurons, the teachings of the entire analysis can be preserved in 3-D space, and, also, with just two neurons in 2-D space.

5. As a direct application to conclusion 4, if different musical tones are given to the different burst frequencies emitted in time by the 3 or 2 marking neurons, a "cyclic brain melody" can help with yet another physiological sense, not only the optical, to the understanding of behavioral sequences, in real or delayed time.

6. The study of behavioral cascades is generalized with a proposed neuroethological rule. It states that one can go as deeply as desired during the search for mesoscopic and microscopic behavorial building blocks, nested and hidden inside of macroscopic behavioral cascades.

7. All this settles down to realising that this kind of analysis, as well as some tentative neuroethological map designs, can be applied to the Barral et al.'s cognitive based subnets model. As a matter of fact, it may also apply to other macroscopic models of brain actions.

8. When the bug's neuroethologic model is compared with the just mentioned superior human one, some far-reaching conclusions appear.

• Human behavior is also a cascade of behaviors, sometimes mental behaviors. Each elementary behavior which has the potentiality to solve, according to the Le Chatelier principle, the immediate problem selected.

• Human and bug's cascades show many mechanistic similarities and, extrapolating, one is tempted to say that as happens with the bug's model, the normal human way of acting may be based strongly on solving the immediate problem, and bypassing the master planning aspects. The general plan tends to have a minor priority and the immediate contingency tends to have a major one.

• Starting with an unplanned-navigation-through-life argument, related to the artificial bug's way of action, there seems no need and no neuroethological elements to characterize neither the prior nor the posterior behavioral trajectories, with the exception of motivated cyclic behavior cascades, where a shadow of memory-like actions appear.

• As a corolary to Minsky's rule (see e.3.5), it is argued here that the main difference between common low intelectual and uncommon high intelectual abilities rests mainly on the concentration (low or high) of subnet triggerings and interconnecions.

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