[MD] memory and the brain

[Platt Holden]

> {Krimel}
> > Experience as I have tried to insist is not a unity at all it is the
> > illusion of unity. Any experience triggers stimulation of a variety of
> > neural pathways, visual, auditory, emotional and so forth. All of
> these
> > different pathways become associated together in memory and as they
> are
> > different pathways and as they are distributed throughout the brain it
> > is
> > perhaps not surprising that they do not appear to be localized. Unity
> is
> > the
> > result of the common patterning of these distributed pathways acting
> in
> > concert.
>  
> [Platt]
> Who does the associating, distributing, patterning and acting? 
> 
> [Krimel]
> When a raindrop lands on your windshield, who determines its path toward
> your wiper blade?
> 
> Or I might say that: "Who" IS the associating, distributing, patterning
> and
> acting?

Beats me. I thought maybe science had the answer. Guess "determinism" 
hasn't got all the answers after all. Looks like another "oops" situation.