From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.ecf!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uun Tue Mar 24 09:57:39 EST 1992
Article 4627 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.ecf!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uun
et!trwacs!erwin
>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Infinite Minds?
Message-ID: <519@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
Date: 20 Mar 92 12:39:55 GMT
References: <1992Mar17.211601.18028@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <1992Mar19.142419.9413@cs.ucf.edu>
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
Lines: 18

Just a couple of comments:

1. The indifference of the internal model to choice of coordinate system
implies that the transformation involved in internalizing the sensory data
must factor those data into a normalized, coordinate-indifferent part and
an orientation/position-defining part. Wavelet transforms have that
characteristic and are an integral part of the quantitative version of
Pribram's holographic model of the brain.

2. There is evidence than sensory data are _not_ encoded into pulse trains
until they are processed in the brain. The traditional model of neuronal
function does not hold for the retina, where action potentials are not
seen.

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


