title: THE THEORY OF THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM: II. SIGNIFICANCE OF NERVOUS ACTIVITY IN THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM creator: Jarvilehto, Timo subject: Behavioral Analysis subject: Behavioral Neuroscience subject: Theoretical Biology subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Neural Nets subject: Neurophysiology subject: Neuropsychology subject: Philosophy of Mind subject: Physiological Psychology subject: Psychobiology description: The relation between mental processes and brain activity is studied from the point of view of the theory of the organism-environment system. It is argued that the systemic point of view leads to a new kind of definition of the primary tasks of neurophysiology and to a new understanding of the traditional neurophysiological concepts. Neurophysiology is restored to its place as a part of biology: its task is the study of neurons as living units, not as computer chips. Neurons are living units which are organised as metabolic systems in connection with other neurons; they are not units which would carry out some psychological functions or maintain states which are typical only of the whole organism-environment system. Psychological processes, on the other hand, are processes always comprising the whole organism-environment system. date: 1998-03 type: Preprint type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/365/1/nerve.htm identifier: Jarvilehto, Timo (1998) THE THEORY OF THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM: II. SIGNIFICANCE OF NERVOUS ACTIVITY IN THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/365/