Towards the Self-constructive Brain: emergence of adaptive behavior
Fernando Corbacho

TL;DR
This paper proposes a self-constructive brain model where the brain actively builds and repairs its internal models to adapt and create its own reality, enabling emergent adaptive behavior.
Contribution
It introduces a novel framework of the brain as a self-constructive, active system capable of self-experimentation, growth, and repair, advancing understanding of adaptive behavior.
Findings
The brain constructs internal models through self-driven interactions.
Internal models enable the emergence of adaptive behavior.
The self-constructive principles include self-experimental, self-growing, and self-repairing mechanisms.
Abstract
Adaptive behavior is mainly the result of adaptive brains. We go a step beyond and claim that the brain does not only adapt to its surrounding reality but rather, it builds itself up to constructs its own reality. That is, rather than just trying to passively understand its environment, the brain is the architect of its own reality in an active process where its internal models of the external world frame how its new interactions with the environment are assimilated. These internal models represent relevant predictive patterns of interaction all over the different brain structures: perceptual, sensorimotor, motor, etc. The emergence of adaptive behavior arises from this self-constructive nature of the brain, based on the following principles of organization: self-experimental, self- growing, and self-repairing. Self-experimental, since to ensure survival, the self-constructive brain…
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Taxonomy
TopicsEmbodied and Extended Cognition · Neural dynamics and brain function · Action Observation and Synchronization
