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K C Cheng kccheng at postoffice.idirect.com
Thu Nov 5 12:37:22 EST 1998


F. Frank LeFever wrote:
 
> If you know anything at all about the physiology of the nervous system,
> then you will appreciate my telling you that this kccheng fellow seems
> to believe NOT that these phenomena can be described in electromagnetic
> terms, but that a given electromagnetic particle can travel somehow
> through the neurons until it reaches some sort of a memory bank full of
> particles, each one of which has a "memory" of something or other.
> 
> You can then judge whether it is worth the effort to look at anything
> he has written or videotaped.
> 
> Or have I misunderstood the poor fellow?
> 
> F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
> New York Neuropsychology Group
Re above:
Not by too much. If we see how action potentials are the only stimuli
coming in to give rise to various sensations,  we must question what are
in those AP to distinguish one from another stimulus and therefore one
sensation(colours, or sound pitches, etc.) from another, and one
corresponding resulting memory from another.   What can be in the same
type of action potentials to differentiate each specific stimuls from
others?
But it's easily said than done.  It takes great detailed efforts to
prove it all.
I also read Kandel and it is a good book.  However, on memory it still
has not the updated version yet.

-- 
kccheng ¾G«a¸s
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