[MD] memory and the brain

[Krimel]

> {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?

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

[Krimel]
Determinism was among the first casualties of probability theory. Also that
should be a period not a question mark on my last statement. It was not a
question. But what's your point?

...oh yeah, even a bad poet can see to the heart of that...