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June 18, 2010

117. Rats Have Inborn Navigational Brain Neurology

Scientists at Norwegian University in Trondheim have determined that rats have at birth three kinds of neurons that establish navigation for the new born animals:

direction neurons

place neurons

grid neurons

When the animal moves, direction neuron fires. Place neurons fire at a location. Grid neurons fire at regular intervals as the animal moves, establishing something like a spatial grid.

The article, cited above, compares this finding to Kant's theory of innate knowledge of space; but it is quite different. The rat's navigational knowledge is created by activity in the world. It is existential, in comparison to transcendental.

Presumbly humans have the same equipment, at least.

We can see a congruity between these navigational neurons and the primordial values I hypothesize as the basis of valuated geography, that is, a landscape.

Posted by on June 18, 2010 at 03:19 PM in Values Journal |

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