William James on consciousness and memory:
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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I have another post coming out later today for Friday Grey Matters, but I just had to put up a link to
Can it, oh
Some of the more insidious factors enabling the constant and dangerous advance of global warming are a lack of public awareness or acceptance and the feeling that it's not a problem relevant to my everyday life.
Here's a question which pretty much everyone gets wrong. But the readers of this blog aren't just a random sample, so I bet most of you will get it right:
All I can say is, BEAUTIFUL!
Ah, ol' James boy thought he had the nature of thought here.
He doesn't for one instant think that thought isn't a stream, and so his narrative propagates and stands as an indestructible vestige that lasted his whole life long.
With the likes of Jeff Hawkins, I believe we have come a long way from all this fanciful notation such that we may finally have a real grasp on the nature of the brain. Boiled down very simply: Thought = Behavior = Perception = Memory = Anticipation. And all of this in a hierarchical columnar structure stands as a monstrously powerful realization.