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Their study looks not specifically at a storage site, but that along with the sites for processing a new memory for storage, and processes for recalling a memor

Their study looks not specifically at a storage site, but that along with the sites for processing a new memory for storage, and processes for recalling a memory from storage. When you see something, that visual input is processed in a certain area that, IIRC, is the same area that is fired when recalling a visual memory. When a memory is recalled, it is processed by the same regions that interpreted it initially upon first experiencing the stimulus. Compare that to a computer pulling a png from storage, loading into memory, calling necessary drivers to present onscreen, etc.

PaulHoule 4y ago
I remember telling some people that this is how it works back in 2003 or so. I read a book that said the architecture of the brain was like a polyhedron where the vertexes represented different processing modes (visual, auditory, linguistic, emotional, ...) and that bundles of fibers that go down into the white matter and connect processing areas in the grey matter of the cortex. If you think about a "dog", those connecting fibers activate images of the dog, the sounds the dog makes, the motor program to pet the dog, the feeling of the fur, etc...
- nh23423fefe 4y ago
  Agree. Our experience of the world isn't a screen painted with what the world looks like. But instead is a collection of affordances and expectations. Have you ever picked up an empty milk jug and yanked it super fast? Did you choose to yank it. Or did the program called pick up heavy milk jug run instead of empty milk jug. Feeling the confusion over how light the jug was causes the program "confusion" to run to help you look for an explanation about why this object is so different from what you expected. The reasoning program creates the feeling of resolution once you arrive at, "I believed it was full but it wasn't", but prior to that resolution, if you really pay attention, you are just standing there for a moment puzzled about why your arm is moving so fast.

PaulHoule 4y ago

I remember telling some people that this is how it works back in 2003 or so. I read a book that said the architecture of the brain was like a polyhedron where the vertexes represented different processing modes (visual, auditory, linguistic, emotional, ...) and that bundles of fibers that go down into the white matter and connect processing areas in the grey matter of the cortex. If you think about a "dog", those connecting fibers activate images of the dog, the sounds the dog makes, the motor program to pet the dog, the feeling of the fur, etc...

nh23423fefe 4y ago
Agree. Our experience of the world isn't a screen painted with what the world looks like. But instead is a collection of affordances and expectations. Have you ever picked up an empty milk jug and yanked it super fast? Did you choose to yank it. Or did the program called pick up heavy milk jug run instead of empty milk jug. Feeling the confusion over how light the jug was causes the program "confusion" to run to help you look for an explanation about why this object is so different from what you expected. The reasoning program creates the feeling of resolution once you arrive at, "I believed it was full but it wasn't", but prior to that resolution, if you really pay attention, you are just standing there for a moment puzzled about why your arm is moving so fast.