"ratchet-pawling" is just a "key" that addresses
a portion of the discussion of hippocampal
dynamics in AoK, Ap5 [and, of course, the
body of Literature pertaining].
A "ratchet"-ing thing is anything that enables
a process to procede "by a little bit at a time".
A "pawl" is anything that occurs that prevents
a "ratchet" from slipping backward.
In AoK, I use a "ratchet-pawling" analogy to
address the topologically-distributed way that
the hippocampus converges upon TD E/I-
minimization by alternatingly passing through
["ratcheting"] specific and non-specific activation
and latching ["pawling"] in a topologically-
distributed way with respect to 'momentary'
TD E/I(min), which as the alternation of
specific and non-specific inputs procedes,
converges upon longer-term TD E/I-minimization,
which optimizes the correlated "supersystem
configuration" [AoK, Ap5; 'instantaneous'
globally-integrated neural interconnectedness].
Since it's come up in another post recently,
these "ratchet-pawling" dynamics produce
observable non-information-containing
"oscilations" as an artifact of their inherent
convergence toward TD E/I-minimization.
Cheers, Peter,
ken [k. p. collins]
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