Philosophy Department and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.
J Cogn Neurosci. 1990 Winter;2(1):58-68. doi: 10.1162/jocn.1990.2.1.58.
An idea that human cognitive resources are virtually without limit turns up at all levels of mind/brain science. This tacit unbounded-resource assumption has paradoxical consequences in neuroscience, particularly involving the quantitative incoherence of some key anatomical studies of cortical connectivity resources: cortical sheet area, synaptic density there, and giant axonic arborizations in visual cortex. This inattention to quantitative consistency checking in neuroanatomy appears to stem from, as a notable instance, something of the nonspatial character of the Cartesian concept of mind being extended to the brain as physical structure.
一个观点认为人类的认知资源几乎是没有限制的，这个观点出现在大脑科学的各个层面。这种隐性的、无限制资源的假设在神经科学中产生了矛盾的后果，特别是涉及到皮质连接资源的一些关键解剖学研究的定量不连贯性：皮质面积、那里的突触密度，以及视觉皮层中的巨大轴突分支。这种对神经解剖学中定量一致性检查的忽视似乎源于笛卡尔心智概念的非空间特征被扩展到大脑的物理结构。
