Neural assemblies form momentary centers without any fixed command node.

Evidence

There is no longer a center but rather discrete assemblies of neurons forming mobile and momentary centers on each occasion. Organizational suppleness now goes hand in hand with authority and decision. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 145

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Concrete grounding for what the network model claims: ‘mobile and momentary centers’ — essential to state the plasticity case accurately in a memo.

Related

• A decentralizing brain still exercises authority and decision via momentary neuronal centers (similarity 0.89)
• Mechanical brain metaphors all reduce the brain to a control center (similarity 0.79)
• Neuronal functioning has become the social’s very nature, not just its metaphor (similarity 0.79)