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


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