Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!nagle
From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Holography
Message-ID: <nagleD3A8Mw.KCt@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <wareham.51.003B754E@vision.ee.queensu.ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:28:08 GMT
Lines: 15

wareham@vision.ee.queensu.ca (Paul Wareham) writes:
>I was just wondering if anyone here has put any thought into holographic 
>models for use in physics, psychology, brain research, vision,  etc.  I've 
>been reading a book by Michael Talbot called " The Holographic Universe" and 
>some of the concepts seem to have merit, although very generalized.

    Most talk of "holographic" models for "intelligence" reflects a
vague desire to avoid reductionism, not a real attempt to build something
that works.

    Just the fact that brains show some redundancy doesn't mean that anything
like holography is used.  CD-ROMs, RAID disk arrays, and hard drives all
have some redundancy and can recover from some missing data.

					John Nagle
