my view is that Karl Lashley got it right ~~50 years ago.
what's referred to as "memory" occurs as a function of the whole network, as
the network 'strives' ['blindly' and automatically] to achieve maximized
'inhibition' and minimized 'excitation' topologically-distributed within it
[shorthand TD E/I(min); the minimization of the topologically-distributed
[relative] ratios of excitation to inhibition].
it works be-cause it's all rigorously aligned with the one-way flow of
energy from order to disorder that is what's described by 2nd Thermo
[WDB2T], and so is the rest of physical reality.
no one will ever 'find a memory in a neuron', all they'll ever find is this
or that neuron's functional contributions to 'memories' that're stored,
retrieved and cross-correlated ['associated'] within the neural topology as
a whole.
[i've got an old hypertext monograph that outlines the mechanism. i'll send
it to you [and anyone else] if you [and/or they] want it. [dl about 300k,
expands to a meg, runs under Windows.]]
k. p. collins [ken]
Darkstar555 wrote in message ...
>Could someone please update me on the latest events in memory
>research. What is known about the engram these days and how longterm
>memory is believed to be stored in the neurons?
