Lifting the screen on Neural organization: Is computational functional modeling necessary?

Arbib et al.'s comprehensive review of neural organization, over-relies on modernist concepts and restricts our understanding of brain and behavior. R eliance on terms like coding, transformation, and representation perpetuate s a "black-box approach" to the study of the brain. Recognition is due to t he authors for attempting to introduce postmodern concepts such as chaos an d self-organization to the study of neural organization. However, confusion occurs in the implementation of "biologically rooted" schema theory in whi ch schemas are viewed as computer programs. The inclusion of an additional functional level between structure and dynamics is unnecessary in a postmod ernist perspective of brain and behavior.