Re:A single memory is stored across many connected brain reg...
by nh23423fefe on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @11:32AM
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Agree. Our experience of the world isn't a screen painted with what the world looks like. But instead is a collection of affordances and expectations.
Have you ever picked up an empty milk jug and yanked it super fast? Did you choose to yank it. Or did the program called pick up heavy milk jug run instead of empty milk jug. Feeling the confusion over how light the jug was causes the program "confusion" to run to help you look for an explanation about why this object is so different from what you expected.
The reasoning program creates the feeling of resolution once you arrive at, "I believed it was full but it wasn't", but prior to that resolution, if you really pay attention, you are just standing there for a moment puzzled about why your arm is moving so fast.
I read a book that said the architecture of the brain was like a polyhedron where the vertexes represented different processing modes (visual, auditory, linguistic, emotional, ...) and that bundles of fibers that go down into the white matter and connect processing areas in the grey matter of the cortex.
If you think about a "dog", those connecting fibers activate images of the dog, the sounds the dog makes, the motor program to pet the dog, the feeling of the fur, etc...