Thread by @DellAnnaLuca

@MatMcGann What I wrote applies to the internal representation of info in our brain.
Which is completely different from the “hierarchy of reality”.

(Continues)

@MatMcGann At an hypothetical t=0 of our brain, where the neurons are in place but no sensory input has been received, there is no “predetermined place” for information.

When signal in a given neural column becomes stable, that column represents information.

@MatMcGann It just so happens that the representation of basic visual information are the first ones to stabilize in what will be the visual cortex, so that
- that part of the cortex becomes the visual cortex
- the part of the visual cortex which is closer to the eye nerve represents lines

@MatMcGann But the arrow of causality is always: what information stabilizes first goes at the bottom of the “hierarchy of perception” in our brain,

Regardless of any external hierarchy such as scale or the one you mention in your tweet above

@MatMcGann 1/ For reasons I discuss in gum.co/twtamg (free), for example, people with autism tend to have stabler representations of context in “no noise” contexts such as maths and to have more unstable representations of noisy contexts such as social interactions, and that…

@MatMcGann 2/ …and that determines different “foundations” that influence future learning (we learn the non-noisy with eagerness and we have both trouble and lack of motivation to learn the noisy).