Interesting you should mention “whole brain” effects. Could it be that the whole brain is involved in memory formation or are these just ripple effects of ... s

Interesting you should mention “whole brain” effects. Could it be that the whole brain is involved in memory formation or are these just ripple effects of ... something else? Open loop systems are simple...the effects of one block can be understood in isolation. Closed loop control systems with feedback have nonlinear responses to stimuli that can cause ripple effects across the system. By analogy, on a modern cpu with good power management, and shared memory caches, if a program heavily writes to computer memory, the effects will be on the whole computer. Not only will memory power increase, but cache use will too (causing threads on other cpus to slow down) and the chip will heat up, causing every part of the chip to throttle.