ebola?
Bluelight Crew
>>Douglas Hodstatder calls is "the monitoring of brain activity by a subsystem of the brain itself.">>
I really do think Hofstader was onto something with his self-reference thesis...but I still wonder WHY qualia would arise.
>>restless-nemesis>>
Ummm...from my understanding, you give the wrong functions for all the neuro-anatomical areas you note.
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look towards the temporal lobes as they contain long term memories..>>
Actually, from my understanding, we don't yet know where long-term memories are stored. Hell, it could be that there is no single area where long term memories "are". Rather, long-term memories could simply be enduring patterns of neural activity that are widely distributed.
ebola
I really do think Hofstader was onto something with his self-reference thesis...but I still wonder WHY qualia would arise.
>>restless-nemesis>>
Ummm...from my understanding, you give the wrong functions for all the neuro-anatomical areas you note.
>>
look towards the temporal lobes as they contain long term memories..>>
Actually, from my understanding, we don't yet know where long-term memories are stored. Hell, it could be that there is no single area where long term memories "are". Rather, long-term memories could simply be enduring patterns of neural activity that are widely distributed.
ebola