How the Brain Weaves Meaning into SpaceBy Mike Finn
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Place‑ and grid‑cell research is often celebrated as proof of an “inner GPS,” a tidy cartographic module humming behind the eyes. This essay argues the metaphor sells the science short. Drawing on hippocampal physiology, enactivist philosophy, and field studies from London cabbies to Arctic hunters, Mike Finn shows that spatial cognition is less internal cartography than embodied storytelling: neurons, memories, and purposes co‑activate to enact place rather than record it. The result is a concise reconsideration of the Nobel‑winning discoveries—one that relocates navigation from detached mapping to the lived entanglement of movement, meaning, and memory.
