... by Ranulph Glanville. This alternate narrative frames a supposedly moribund period as a phase of continuing refinement of the field’s focus upon its “proper object of study,” namely, the observer’s mentation of/about their mentation. The implications of this renewed focus are then positioned within Larry...

... to examine the observer’s role in “infant psychophysics”. Infant psychophysics was developed because the diagnosis of perceptual deficits should be done as early in a patient’s life as possible, to provide efficacious treatment and thereby reduce potential long-term costs. Infants, however, cannot report...

... were scrutinized. Findings Anthropomorphization arose because single neurons were cast as “observers” who “identify”, “categorize”, “recognize”, “distinguish” or “discriminate” the stimuli, using math-based algorithms that reduce (“decode”) the stimulus-evoked spike trains to the particular stimuli...

..., 2014a) , among others, has summarized the relevant algebra. Dr Lance Nizami can be contacted at: nizamii2@att.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Information theory Brain Homunculus Neuron Observer Symmetry In Cybernetics, Wiener (1961, p. vii) stated...

... and digital not as properties of observed phenomena but as properties of observers, I ask not what is digital or analog, but what I do when I use these terms. I analyze introspectively, and report on, what I think my assumptions are when using the two terms. Findings I develop...

... findings. First, an understanding that context is constructed by the observer. Second, the need to implement a meta‐model to permit circularity between the model and the modelled. Research limitations/implications This paper presents the conceptual underpinning for a project and design strategy...