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The cerebral cortex is supposed to be responsible for humanity’s dominance of the natural world, and in particular for the intellectual pre-eminence that underlies this position.
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Barlow, H. (1987). Cerebral Cortex as Model Builder. In: Vaina, L.M. (eds) Matters of Intelligence. Synthese Library, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5_18
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