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>From: erwin@trwacs.UUCP (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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Date: 31 Jan 92 16:26:29 GMT
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Re: storage of images in the brain.

There is a lot of evidence that memories are stored in the brain
transformed by a wavelet transform. (Think of a fourier transform with
finite support.) Karl Pribram discusses this in his latest book. Hence the
images we retrieve (or the thought sequences we retrieve) are not the form
in which they are stored. Philosophical or psychological discussion of
this should take this logical/physical disjunction into account. It's
similar to the problems physicists have in dealing with quantum mechanics.
We don't have anything in our classical, perceived reality that
corresponds to probability waves, and until the emergence of holograms, we
haven't had anything in our perceived reality that corresponded to how
memories were stored in the brain.
   Cheers,

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



