ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that the specific microneuronal networks that represent or encode cognitive processes in the vertebrate brain cannot be fulfilled with current technology or concepts. It concentrates on the role of networks in current thinking, both in terms of available technology and the conceptual underpinnings. The most advanced technological development that may be of use in studying networks has been progress in multiple electrodes arrays. It then expresses that because of the technical and procedural limitations, the brute force strategy of stimulating and recording the individual components of a microneuronal network that worked so well at the level of single neurons is not likely to ever be implemented at the microneuronal level for ensemble processes. Microneuronal interactions are the bases of the Donald Hebb conjecture a conceptualization that assumes that cognitive processes emerge from the idiosyncratic action of millions, if not billions, of individual neurons and the thousand-fold greater number of synaptic connections.
