On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > What does fomlepung mean? > > If your immediate (mental) response was "I don't know." it means you're not > a slang-slinging Norwegian. But, how did your brain produce that "feeling > of not knowing"? And, how did it produce that feeling so fast? > > Your brain may have been able to do a massively-parallel search of your > entire memory and come up "empty." But, if it does this, it's subconscious. > No one to whom I've presented the above question has reported a conscious > "feeling of searching" before having the conscious feeling of not knowing. > > Brad
My guess that initial recognition must be based on the surface features of an input. If this is true, then that could suggest that our initial recognition reactions are stimulated by distinct components (or distinct groupings of components) that are found in the surface input data. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
