X-Message-Number: 7331 From: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:50:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Hologram Brain Theory (More 1) Date sent: 20-DEC-1996 21:45:07 >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 > >Predictably, holographic talk provokes hot controversy. I recall not > long ago delivering a lecture on the subject, when out of the audience > jumped a neuropharmacologist, trembling with rage, demanding to know: > "How can you account for something like Broca's area?" He was > referring to a part of the cerebrum known for 100 years to be > vulnerable to stroke accompanied by the loss of speech. I cleared my > throat to answer. But before I had the chance, a young > psychophysicist, sprawled in a front-row seat, whipped his >3 > shoulder-length mane around and fired back, "You can't draw beer out > of a barrel without a bung!" > >It was a perceptive reply. For in holographic theory, functional > centers such as Broca's area represent processing stations rather than > storage depots. Rage, fear, hunger centers, the visual cortex at the > back of the brain, or auditory areas at the sides--these would act not > to house specialized information but to PUMP it in or to call out > programs in the form, say, of snarl, smile, utterance, equation, kiss, Make it a point to visit this web site! J.C. **************************************************************************** GREED IS NOT NEED GREED IS NEGATIVE BUT NEED IS POSITIVE *************************************************************************** Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7331