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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: The Holographic Brain Theory is more important than convetional theory

Date sent:  17-DEC-1996 15:25:09 
>Getting http://www.indian.du/~pietsch/home.htmlLookup www.indiaa.edu 
>
>                                 SHUFFLEBRAIN        
>
>A collection of articles and books on how the brain accounts for the mind
>
>   Started July, 1995 ** Upated 09 August 1996
>
>Paul Pietsch, PhD,
>   Professor Emeritus, 
>   Indiana University,
>
>   web contact:  *** Go to Table of Contents 
>
>The holographic theory had its crude origins in the 1920s when
>   psychologist Karl Lashley began a lifelong search through the brain
>   for the vaults containing memory. By then, students of behavior had
>   been readied for angry debate by a paradox that had begun to emerge on
>   the surgical tables of the nineteenth century. Clearly, the mental   
>   world had its biological base in the brain. Yet war, disease, and the
>   stroke of the scalpel had robbed human brains of substance without
>   necessarily expunging the mind. Lashley carried the problem to the
>   laboratory and pursued it with precision tools, mazes, rats, controls,
>   statistics.  
>   
>Lashley alsbrought along the knife. With it, he found he could dull
>   memory in proportion to the amount of cerebrum he cut out. But if he
>   left a rat with any cerebrum at all, the animal could still remember.
>   Not only did he fail to amputate memory, but one area of the cortex
>   would serve it as well as another. He came to two controversial  
>
>   conclusions: intensity of recall depends on the mass of brain, but

>   memory must be divvied up equally. "Mass action" and     "equipotentiality" 
became his theme.

This theory give cryonics more hope because if information is stored 
redundantly then even if a small piece of your brain is still good you will be 
back in the future for sure.
Please visit this website for the full document!!
J.C.


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