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From: jimc@megatek.com (Jim Campbell)
Subject: Re: Predicting the Future
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In article <347t09$hft@lucy.infi.net> dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski) writes:
>jimmyb@athena.mit.edu says:
> 
>>I don't think it's quite honest to say that the brain isn't affected
>>by events in the future.  I'm almost absolutely ignorant as far as
>>brain physiology, but I would suggest that anxiety and arousal (I
>>think of sexual arousal, but it could be taken generally) are likely
>>not to be solely patterned on past 'like experiences,' but have a
>>certain structuring power of their own.  But why am I beating around
>>the bush?-- the whole body, thus necessarily the brain, is (likely, I
>>add this because of my lack of expertise) affected by the one truly
>>imminent future event, death.
> 
>This is not an example of the future affecting the present.
>This is an example of the ongoing cognition about those things
>causing a psycho-emotional response. The cognition is taking
>place with preconceived notions of those things, not the things
>themselves. Those notions are formed from prior learning.
>
>--
>dynasor@infi.net                                        The Doctor is on.


	...Is the system *really* less energenic if domains of opposite
direction alternate?

-jim

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