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The structure and the function are both the result of dynamic processes. Structure and function are intrinsically interwoven. There are, however, many structures that can perform the same kind of function. It is the structure of the neurons and their interconnections that specify the function of the brain. The structure provides constraints just as the situation does.
According to Kelso (1995) the brain is not a computing device, it is a pattern-forming self-organizing system. Behavior is not fixed by complex encoded instruction sets, but rather emerges as a sequence of dynamically stable states in a system with richly interdependent dynamics controlled by both intrinsic and extrinsic variables.
See Clark, 1997, Cognitive Science, 21, 461-481.
