Talk:Binding problem

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What about brain areas that are implicated in binding (e.g. parietal lobe and attention, the role of acetylcholene in feature binding)? Also, there are hypotheses about mechanisms of binding such as synchronous activity. what's the role of the hippocampus in binding? what about computational modeling of the binding problem. what about hebb rules (things that fire together wire together). etc etc etc. all of this should be added to the definition somewhere. Josh Susskind 21:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

What about a discussion of whether there even is a 'binding problem'? Many commentators feel that the very 'problem' is poorly posed. There are two separate issues which need to be addressed, phenomenal binding and functional binding, and it is misleading to confound the two as this article appears to. Some commentators argue that phenomenal binding is a conceptual confusion, this debate is important and should be raised here. The possible 'solutions' described in this article are more pertinent to functional binding.

Mechanisms such as synchronous activity or other objective correlates (neuro-transmitters etc.) have fallen out of favour as having any truly explanatory merit. They were all the rage some years ago especially when Crick and Koch had their 40 hz theory - but it proved a hollow argument - to paraphrase what one philospher said - 'just because a neuron over there is oscillating with the same frequency as one over here says nothing about how they represent features of the same object.' --hughey (talk) 08:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Explanations

This article needs a lot of expansion and explanation. For example, the current paragraph which deals with a homunculus being required for the TV viewing, and the alternative to the ghost in the machine answer with infinite regress. These things are not explained at all. 172.202.186.87 (talk) 07:08, 29 December 2007 (UTC)