On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Jason Resch > > Brain experiments by I forget who were performed by > touching the brain at various points with a probe. > With each point, the patient reported a different > experience was being recalled. > > On the other hand, others report that experiences are > scattered all over the brain, presumably over some sorts of > networks. > > The only way I can reconcile these two points of view is that > experiences are stored in networks such that connecting > at a single point will recall the whole. > > I think there is a lot of redundancy in the brain, memories are stored in many places. Ray Kurzweil makes a good analogy I think, in that the memories in a brain are like a hologram. You can cut a hologram in half and the same image remains, albeit at a reduced resolution. Check out this video, it is fascinating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8OEiTe8_Dc Jason > Perhaps the self is such a point of contact. > > Or the network, on the other hand, may be able > as a whole to simply "will" an experience by self-focussing. > Some here have shown that experiences are somehow > focused by the nerves in the brain simply by willing > them to do so. This appears to be true due to the > fact that a new computerized brain device > can actually allow people to move paralyzed limbs > by simply willing the limb to do so. > > > Like in this video: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57436475-76/paralyzed-woman-moves-robotic-arm-using-thought-alone/ Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
