X-Message-Number: 12848
From: "George Smith" <>
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Subject: Re: The ideas lacking popularity
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:25:17 -0800

> Message #12839
> From: Thomas Donaldson >
> Virtually all of current neuroscientists studying memory believe that our
> memories are somehow encoded in the connections of our neurons. (Yes,
> there are a few on the fringe who have other ideas, but it's important to
> understand not only that they are in a crashing minority but that research
> into how memory works has made their ideas look less and less likely).

Could you please elaborate on these "minority" "fringe" "other ideas"?
History tends to indicate that usually those are the very ideas which prove
to be correct after the status quo dogmatists die off.

George Smith
www.cryonics.org

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