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From: vlsi_lib@netcom.com (Gerard Malecki)
Subject: Re: The Human Brain.
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:52:58 GMT
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In article <3ksvte$g8p@Venus.mcs.com> drt@MCS.COM (Donald Tveter) writes:
>In article <3ko84u$65s@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
>Name withheld by request <anon1fd0@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> (stuff deleted)
>> 
>>       From a pragmatic standpoint, do you (plural) think that
>>    the human brain can ever be understood, and if so, when?
>
>From an article by Walter Schempp in the collection of conference
>proceedings, _Rethinking Neural Networks:  Quantum Fields and
>Biological Data_, an article dealing with a QM model of the brain
>he says:
>
>   Quantum Mechanics, however, has a basic built-in limitation of
>   knowledge that goes far beyond the standard Heisenberg uncertainty
>   principle.  As a consequence, the quantum holographic approach to
>   neurodynamics rigorously establishes that the brain cannot
>   completely explain itself.  To express this phenomenon in terms of
>   a paradox, when the brain threatens to completely explain its
>   quantum neurodynamical function it actually finishes to function.
>   Thus some secrets of the cortical activities will be shrounded
>   for ever.
>
Is this argument valid for only a brain trying to explain itself, or
even any brain(s) trying to explain other brain(s)? If the latter is true,
does it also include a human brain trying to explain a rat's brain?


Shankar Ramakrishnan
shankar@vlibs.com
