X-Message-Number: 7316 From: 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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7316