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Walter Jackson Freeman III

Overview

Walter Jackson Freeman III (January 30, 1927 – April 24, 2016), was an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who conducted research in rabbits' olfactory perception, using EEG. Based on a theoretical framework of neurodynamics that draws upon insights from chaos theory, he speculated that the currency of brains is primarily meaning, and only secondarily information.

In "Societies of Brains" and in other writings, Freeman rejected the view that the brain uses representations to enable knowledge and behavior.

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• Washington, D.C.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Scientist
• University of Chicago
• World War II
• Yale University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Johns Hopkins University
• Chaos theory
• Thomism
• Neural oscillation

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Part of Thomism.

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