Pontifical Cells
William James in 1890 proposed a related idea of a pontifical cell. The pontifical cell is defined as a putative, and implausible, cell which had all our experiences. It is in this different from a concept specific cell in that it is the site of experience of sense data. James's 1890 pontifical cell was instead a cell "to which the rest of the brain provided a representation" of a grandmother. The experience of grandmother occurred in this cell.
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