I just querried some of your references, here
is a response from the skeptics list...
using a lot of foggy scientific sounding
expressions always makes me suspicious... Eva
> mean to do that? However, if you want to
> put down the New Age people, (of which I
> am not one) then you must talk also the
> works of Neuro-physiologist Carl Pribram
> who has done much of the seminal research
> in the brain including the works on
> holographic connections that the local
> sci-fy shows call holo-suites.
Pribram made a name for himself among
New-Agers in the early 80's or so, by
comparing the brain's memory storage to a
hologram. He pointed out that destroying
parts of the brain might degrade certain
memories, but enough remained distributed
throughout other parts to be recognizably
the same memory. Sort of like a hologram.
Then, of course, you make the leap to saying
memory operates in a "nonlocal" fashion.
And leap to saying our brains work like this
in general. And bring in parapsychologists
who like to talk about a "nonlocal mind" and
drop references to quantum physics.
I still see Pribram mentioned in the works
of psientists, but not much in mainstream
neuroscience. Memory is not *that*
"nonlocally" distributed in the brain. And
the distributed, gracefully degrading
property appears in neural nets as well,
which are obviously a lot more relevant to
the brain, and yet are physically very
different than holograms.
Taner Edis
"So this," mused Philip as he watched
Zen master Steve repeatedly bend the
severed piece of limb in half, causing
the bones to produce a faint but audible
crunching noise, "is the sound of one
hand clapping."
-- Murray J. Munro
(Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest entry)
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