How about Rupert Sheldrake's idea that memories are not stored in the =
mind at all, but that the mind (cerebellum?) serves as antenna picking =
up the memories via "morphic resonance" from the space time continuum =
...for the uninitiated, this assumes the space time continuum is a =
memory continuum like a memory surface except muli-dimensional.
James Daugherty
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From: Eliezer Yudkowsky[SMTP:sentience@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 1997 7:37 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Free will, still more
[Eric Watt Forste wonders:]
> I thought the cerebellum was involved in fine-scale motor =
coordination,
> not in conceptual recall. Are you sure you aren't meaning to say
> "cerebral cortex" instead of cerebellum? That's a guess on my
> part... you've really lost me.
Welcome to one of the big surprises of cognitive science. We know the
hippocampus is involved in LTM (long-term memory) formation, because
people who lose the hippocampus can't form new memories - although, in
retrospect, they can retrieve the old LTM just fine.
So, with those newfangled PET scanners and other close-to-real-time
neuroimaging tools, they finally get a chance to see what happens when
people *retrieve* LTM. Guess what lights up?
Not the hippocampus.
Not the cerebral cortex.
The cerebellum.
And if anybody can even *begin* to explain this, I haven't heard about
it. My own guess is that the cerebellum does constraint propagation or
some other kind of constraint-to-visualization assembly, and that is
what motor skills, LTM retrieval, and (another guess) spatiotemporal
visualization have in common.
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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