ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the story of those single neuron research technologies and their strengths and limitations in our search for understanding of the mind-brain problem. It explores on evaluation of the theories that are based on single neurons. The chapter focuses on beset with a number of conceptual and technical difficulties. The initial idea behind the Neuron Doctrine was a purely anatomical one, namely that the cells of the brain are not protoplasmically interconnected. Even more important to the development of theories of cognitive processes was the discovery that patterned stimuli, more so than their raw energy, determined the responses of individual neurons. Neurophysiological recording of the electrical activity of neurons is accomplished by measuring the minute voltages produced by shifting ionic distributions across the cell membrane. Single neuron theories also generate a false need for some kind of binding process in which the responses of many neurons must be melded into the single unified experience.
