more on this theme | more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
We propose that concepts arise from the mapping by the brain itself of the activity of the brain's own areas and regions.
Gist of Idea
Concepts arise when the brain maps its own activities
Source
G Edelman / G Tononi (Consciousness: matter becomes imagination [2000], Ch. 9)
Book Ref
Edelman,G/Tononi,G: 'Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination' [Penguin 2000], p.102
A Reaction
Yes. One should add that the brain appears to be physically constructed with the logic of a filing system, which would mean that our concepts were labels for files within the system. Nature generates some of the files, and thinking creates the others.