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Article 6549 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Memory and store/retrieve.
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Date: 3 Aug 92 12:53:39 GMT
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You propose that the brain uses attractor neural networks in the
hippocampus for memory. The spawning of an attractor is a bifurcation
event. Would you care to speculate on the nature of that bifurcation? I
also suspect that episodic memory involves a sequence of quasi-stable
states, with the system converging to each in turn (think of a chain of
hyperbolic attractors). 

I wonder if the dynamics of the hippocampus are structurally stable. If
so, it would be interesting to characterize them.

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


