- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
1 The Axiological Cogito -
2 Description of Finalist Activity -
3 Finalist Activity and Organic Life -
4 The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism -
5 Finalist Activity and the Nervous System -
6 The Brain and the Embryo -
7 Signification of Equipotentiality -
8 The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and “Material” Existence -
9 “Absolute Surfaces” and Absolute Domains of Survey -
10 Absolute Domains and Bonds -
11 Absolute Domains and Finality -
12 The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual -
13 The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity -
14 The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe -
15 The Neomaterialist Theories -
16 Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection -
17 Neo-Darwinism and Genetics -
18 Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality -
19 Psycho-Lamarckism -
20 Theology of Finality - Summary
- Translator’s Afterword
- Index
- Index
The Brain and the Embryo
The Brain and the Embryo
- Chapter:
- (p.45) 6 The Brain and the Embryo
- Source:
- Neofinalism
- Author(s):
Raymond Ruyer
Alyosha Edlebi
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter demonstrates that the brain retains the equipotentiality of the egg or embryonic areas. It then tackles the various explanations of equipotentiality given by embryologists and neurologists: quantitative; physiological or psychological; gestaltist; conexionist; Gestalt. Ruyer critiques all of those theories and the chapter closes by showing their insufficiency in general.
Keywords: Brain, Equipotentiality, Embryo, Embryology, Neurology, Physiology, Psychology, Gestalt, Theory
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
1 The Axiological Cogito -
2 Description of Finalist Activity -
3 Finalist Activity and Organic Life -
4 The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism -
5 Finalist Activity and the Nervous System -
6 The Brain and the Embryo -
7 Signification of Equipotentiality -
8 The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and “Material” Existence -
9 “Absolute Surfaces” and Absolute Domains of Survey -
10 Absolute Domains and Bonds -
11 Absolute Domains and Finality -
12 The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual -
13 The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity -
14 The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe -
15 The Neomaterialist Theories -
16 Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection -
17 Neo-Darwinism and Genetics -
18 Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality -
19 Psycho-Lamarckism -
20 Theology of Finality - Summary
- Translator’s Afterword
- Index
- Index
