http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/sheldrake-morphogenic-field-m emory-lashley-collective-unconscious-3486.html
good article on brain and mind. [Krimel] Good example of how useless Sheldrake's notions have proven to be. The article was written in 1987 and its impact either in terms of modifying or creating a theory or stimulating research has amounted to squat. Lashley was the neuroscientist who sought to find the particular areas where memory resides. There was some optimism about this because particular areas of the brain have been identified for sensation, motor function, emotions and a host of other cognitive functions. Lashley concluded that memory was distributed throughout the brain. Subsequent research has demonstrated that some kinds of learning may indeed be located in the cerebellum, an unlikely place to find it, I would say. But this may be an artifact of the very specific kind of classically conditioned learning that produced these results. Eric Kandel, who is also mentioned, did research on sea slugs to demonstrate the biochemical basis of memory formation. He found that rather than being the result of the growth of new neurons or of new connections between neurons, memory results from biochemical changes in the neurons affected as we learn. What happens is that neural pathways become more efficient in sending signals as we learn. Experience as I have tried to insist is not a unity at all it is the illusion of unity. Any experience triggers stimulation of a variety of neural pathways, visual, auditory, emotional and so forth. All of these different pathways become associated together in memory and as they are different pathways and as they are distributed throughout the brain it is perhaps not surprising that they do not appear to be localized. Unity is the result of the common patterning of these distributed pathways acting in concert. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
