ashwin kelkar has written on 09/03/00 03:52 :
<thoughts are already there in a certain space-time also in our space-time>
I agree with your statement; however, the space-time continuum we are
talking about must be feasible in the brain. (Remember: we have no other
knowledge generator or media at our disposal!). Trying to stay close with
neurobiology, one may consider each neuron as a 'property-holder' , assigned
to a fixed location in the brain, whose upstream and downstream relations
with a given set of other 'property-holders' are materialized by a dendritic
tree and a branched axon. Delimiting thus a space of direct influence, this
geometry is given a time dimension when the group of neurons fires. Despite
the shortness of the pulse (1 msec), neurons step instantly into a specific
continuum, time-shared by a number of other neurons operating at many
locations throughout the whole system. A master clock and a few sets of
coincidence detectors are sufficient, at least in principle, for structuring
and identifying each group.
Such a system is quite advantageous. There is no need for moving
'information' from one place to another, because the property expressed by
any firing neuron in a group under the control of the same coincidence
detector becomes the property of the space-time it pertains to. And the
whole brain can be made aware that something new happens just now and there.
Louis Wacongne
lwacongne at compuserve.com
