caa a22 4500 605448310 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9483-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9483-1 Keijzer Fred Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL, Groningen, The Netherlands aut Moving and sensing without input and output: early nervous systems and the origins of the animal sensorimotor organization [Elektronische Daten] [Fred Keijzer] It remains a standing problem how and why the first nervous systems evolved. Molecular and genomic information is now rapidly accumulating but the macroscopic organization and functioning of early nervous systems remains unclear. To explore potential evolutionary options, a coordination centered view is discussed that diverges from a standard input-output view on early nervous systems. The scenario involved, the skin brain thesis (SBT), stresses the need to coordinate muscle-based motility at a very early stage. This paper addresses how this scenario with its focus on coordination also deals with sensory aspects. It will be argued that the neural structure required to coordinate extensive sheets of contractile tissue for motility provides the starting point for a new multicellular organized form of sensing. Moving a body by muscle contraction provides the basis for a multicellular organization that is sensitive to external surface structure at the scale of the animal body. Instead of thinking about early nervous systems as being connected to the environment merely through input and output, the implication developed here is that early nervous systems provide the foundation for a highly specific animal sensorimotor organization in which neural activity directly reflects bodily and environmental spatiotemporal structure. While the SBT diverges from the input-output view, it is closely linked to and supported by ongoing work on embodied approaches to intelligence to which it adds a new interpretation of animal embodiment and sensorimotor organization. The Author(s), 2015 Early nervous systems nationallicence Skin brain thesis nationallicence Sensorimotor organization nationallicence Embodiment nationallicence Input-output view nationallicence Coordination view nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 311-331 0169-3867 30:3<311 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9483-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9483-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Keijzer Fred Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL, Groningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 311-331 0169-3867 30:3<311 2015 30 10539