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A Restian

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Transition of nervous activity from signals to information processing.

The author starts from the fact that although the signals are the information bearers, they cannot be identified with the information they are carrying. Therefore, in order to achieve control as adequate as possible of human behaviour, the nervous system has to discover the information brought by different signals. The activity of information discovery is realized by means of superisation process, that is by means of transition from many lower order signals to a superior order signal. By means of the superisation process a gradual recognition of the respective signals emitting sources is realised. This recognition is made with the help of certain logical circuits representing the models of different sources written in the structure of the neuronal network. In this manner the nervous system passes step by step from control by means of signals to control by means of information by which the superior structures thereby exert much more subtle control, and supervise the inferior structures working by signals. But, because this control cannot remove all the errors of the inferior structures, different psychical and psychosomatic illnesses can occur.

Afferent Pathways

How the nervous system determines the quantity of information delivered by signals.

Starting from the finding that the brain responds to received signals according to the quantity of information (Restian, 1978), the author tried to answer the question: How does the brain discover the quantity of information brought by these signals? In order to reply to this question, the author appealed to two sources that emitted similar signals containing different information. It was found that although the signals brought different information at the beginning they functioned similarly. Only after a period of time did the signals come to function differently, according to the quantity of information delivered by them. This fact demonstrates that the brain operates neither on signals nor on source-emitted information. The brain operates on information discovered by it in the respective signals, and the discovery of the information the received signals is done according an internal model constructed by the brain concerning the respective source. It can be affirmed by the fact that together with the improvement of the model, the results of the received signals are modified.

Brain