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>From: stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Spectral Data Processing in the Brain
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There are two terms floating around in this discussion- holographic, spectral-
which have different meanings, but some parties are calling the same.
Holographic in the Pilbram sense means a global rather than local processing.
For example, it hard to isolate a few brain cells for a given memory, perhaps
billions are involved.
Spectral means to decompose into wavelengths.  This often happens in visual
and auditory processing.
A holographic information processing system may be spectral as in the case
of holographic photography.  It may be non-spectral as in the case of many
types of neural networks.


