X-Message-Number: 7322 From: (Randy) Subject: Re: Strout's comments on memory loss Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:35:01 GMT Strout said: >Moreover, from everything we understand about how memories are stored, >holograms have nothing to do with it. They *are* stored in a >distributed >and probably redundant fashion, but that doesn't mean you could >reconstruct the entire brain (or all memories) from a tiny piece. >Instead, it means that each tiny piece is meaningless without the >others. >On the other hand, it does suggest a good robustness to minor damage, or the sort of minor information loss >that is likely to happen. How is this a robust reponse to minor damage, if each tiny piece is meaningless without the others? You seem to suggest that either the brain is whole, or it is worthless, wrt memory. Randy Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7322