Jan Swammerdam's frogs

Sleigh, Charlotte

doi:10.1098/rsnr.2012.0039

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“…This discovery led to the demise of current views on the induction of motor reactions. 2 Thus, the "pneuma psychikon" theory was renounced by the scientific community. However, Swammerdam was not able to answer how the nerve irritation causes the muscles to contract.…”

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Methods of integrating the human nervous system with electronic circuits

Skok¹,

Tabakow²,

Chmielak³

2019

Adv Clin Exp Med

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In recent years, many attempts have been made to connect electrical circuits with the human nervous system. The objective of type of research was diverse -from the desire to understand the physiology of the nervous system, through attempting to substitute nervous tissue defects with synthetic systems, to creating an interface that allows computers to be controlled directly with one's thought. Regardless of the original purpose, the creation of any form of such a combination would entail a series of subsequent discoveries, allowing for a real revolution in both theoretical and clinical neuroscience. Computers based on neurons, neurochips or mind prostheses are just some examples of technologies that could soon become part of everyday life. Despite numerous attempts, there is still no interface that meets all the expectations of the scholars. However, many scientific groups seem to be on the right track and their achievements raise extraordinary expectations. This paper evaluates historical theories and contemporary ideas about such interfaces to smoothly describe the major medical and scientific utility of the subject. Thus it presents the main issues surrounding the concept of integrating the human nervous system with electronic circuits.

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Methods of integrating the human nervous system with electronic circuits

Skok¹,

Tabakow²,

Chmielak³

2019

Adv Clin Exp Med

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“…According toSleigh (2012), Swammerdam's frog work was only published posthumously in 1737, in which case Willis would not have known about it.…”

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Foundations of Human and Animal Sensory Awareness: Descartes and Willis

Brown,

Key

2023

Reading Descartes

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In arguing against the likelihood of consciousness in non-human animals, Descartes advances a slippery slope argument that if thought were attributed to any one animal, it would have to be attributed to all, which is absurd. This paper examines the foundations of Thomas Willis’ comparative neuroanatomy against the background of Descartes’ slippery slope argument against animal consciousness. Inspired by Gassendi’s ideas about the corporeal soul, Thomas Willis distinguished between neural circuitry responsible for reflex behaviour and that responsible for cognitively or consciously mediated behaviour. This afforded Willis a non-arbitrary basis for distinguishing between animals with thought and consciousness and those without, a methodology which retains currency for neuroscience today.

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