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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Keys
Keywords: neuroscience
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Date: 2 Jun 92 21:58:02 GMT
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The key for accessing processed sound data associated with a given object
appears to be narrow-band spectrum (at least for owls). What are the
corresponding keys for other sensory modalities? For that matter, smell
and taste "spectrum" appears to be the primary key for accessing
emotionally-charged memories. Is this the case? Are there similar keys
associated with other post-sensory processing/memories?

Note that a key associated with a sensory modality should have the
following characteristics:
1. be assigned prior to any processing of the object data stream,
2. be associated with illusions when two objects share similar keys, and
3. probably be associated with some sort of spectrum.

I'm also curious about keys associated with specific object domains (such
as social behavior or individuals).

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com



