----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: Re: SCOUTED: Science Meets Spirituality, and Wireless Nanotech VR
In a message dated 3/3/2002 10:53:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A nice thought, but I believe it's still a pipe dream on some level. If every person interacts with his/her environment in a subjectively individual manner, and everyone's brain interprets say, the color "blue" differently, then what we see when we interact with someone else's brain is our interpretation of what they see and not truly experiencing the world through their senses. Zim: I would suspect that things will be a bit more orderly than this. I think if may be that whatever brain state corresponds to blue in one person will be close to the same in another or at least the relationship between blue and other colors will be the same. The brain of all of us will interpret the color spectra in similar manners. I just don't believe this information will be encapsulated in an individual neuron. I'm not sure I would characterize this as holistic rather than reductionist, but that the thing that some brain function reduces to (e.g components of consciousness) is not the neurong but some state of a suite of neurons. The neurons are constantly being up or down regulated by adjacent neurons so the state of neuron (the likelines of depolarization propogating down an axon) is variable. XRob: There is some order in all that messy and chaotic physiology, but I have doubts that it will be sorted out in any kind of straightforward manner. The brain is layers of evolution on top of layers with fixes in between. How important is the biochemical aspect to thinking? xponent Mr. Chaos Maru rob
