Way back in 1989, one day, I knew this was Intuition.
Abraham Thomas
KNOW YOURSELF PODCAST Listen each week, to one podcast. Based on practical self improvement principles. From the insight of an engineer, back in 1989, about the data processing structure of the human mind, recognizing, filtering, storing patterns, without stopping. Patterns of guilt, shame, fear. How to silence painful subconscious patterns and become self aware.
The
human memory research mistake is that science has not yet focused on
explaining its massive capacity and precision. While memory must
reside in the nervous system, the mathematical underpinnings of
science prevent it from seeing the nerve cell as a pattern
recognition entity, which can remember and precisely recall patterns
on a galactic scale.
Leslie
Vosshall reports that, in her lab, ordinary volunteers, (not wine
tasters or perfumers), could clearly distinguish between different
combinations of 128 odor molecules, indicating an average human
ability to differentiate between 1 trillion smells. Combinatorial
codes can theoretically store a galactic memory and recall it with
infinite precision. This view has not been followed up by science in
its research.
Human
and animal memory involves the ability to remember and recognize
millions of images. In the muscle movements for habitual activities
from running to speaking, the system stores massive combinatorial
memories. Yet, the most important area for memory research has been
for simple remembered responses in fear conditioning. In these
experiments, mice and rats learn to avoid a mild electric shock to
their feet, while they move around a small chamber. Once learned,
animals do not forget. Placed back in the chamber a day, or even a
month later, they remember to avoid the shock. By focusing on this
simple "Dial 100" response, science fails to seek
explanations for trillions of other memory links.
Can An Algorithm Be Controlling The Mind?
I am not a physician, but an engineer. Way back in 1989, I catalogued how the ELIMINATION approach of an AI Expert System could reveal a way by which the nervous system could store and retrieve astronomically large memories. That insight is central to the six unique new premises presented in this website.
These new premises could explain an enigma. A physician is aware of thousands of diseases and their related symptoms. How does he note a symptom and focus on a single disease in less than half a second? How could he identify Disease X out of 8000 diseases with just a glance?
First, the total born and learned knowledge available to the doctor could not exist anywhere other than as the stored/retrieved data within the 100 billion neurons in his brain. The perceptions, sensations, feelings and physical activities of the doctor could only be enabled by the electrical impulses flowing through the axons of those neurons. The data enabling that process could be stored as digital combinations.
Second, combinatorial decisions of neurons cannot be made by any entity other than the axon hillock, which decides the axonal output of each neuron. The hillock receives hundreds of inputs from other neurons. Each hillock makes the pivotal neuronal decision about received inputs within 5 milliseconds. Axon hillocks could be storing digital combinations. It could be adding each new incoming digital combination to its memory store. The hillock could fire impulses, if it matched a stored combination. If not, it could inhibit further impulses. Using stored digital data to make decisions about incoming messages could make the axon hillocks intelligent.
Third, combinations are reported to enable a powerful coding mode for axon hillocks. Olfactory combinatorial data is known (Nobel Prize 2004) to store memories for millions of smells. Each one of 100 billion axon hillocks have around a 1000 links to other neurons. The hillocks can mathematically store more combinations than there are stars in the sky. Each new digital combination could be adding a new relationship link. In this infinite store, specific axon hillocks could be storing all the symptom = disease (S=D) links known to the doctor as digital combinations.
Fourth, instant communication is possible in the nervous system. Within five steps, information in one hillock can reach all other relevant neurons. Just 20 Ms for global awareness. Within the instant the doctor observes a symptom, feedback and feed forward links could inform every S=D link of the presence of the symptom. Only the S=D link of Disease X could be recalling the combination and recognizing the symptom.
Fifth, on not recognizing the symptom, all other S=D hillocks could be instantly inhibiting their impulses. The S=D links of Disease X could be continuing to fire. Those firing S=D link would be recalling past complaints, treatments and signs of Disease X, confirming the diagnosis. This could be enabling axon hillocks to identify Disease X out of 8000 in milliseconds. Eliminating improbable (unrecognized) prospects to arrive at a possible (recognized in the past) solution powers the powerful inductive logic of the mind!
Worldwide interest in this website is acknowledging its rationale. Not metaphysical theories, but processing of digital memories in axon hillocks could be explaining innumerable mysteries of the mind. Over three decades, this website has been assembling more and more evidence of the manipulation of emotional and physical behaviors by narrowly focused digital pattern recognition. It has also been receiving over 2 million page views from over 150 countries.
Human Memory Research Mistake
What Are Neural Speed Dial Links?
Nature
created “speed dial links” between nerve cells to remember
notably dangerous situations. Neural plasticity grew new branches to
support such links. LTP established quick response systems. High
frequency stimulation of the dendrites of a neuron were known to
improve the sensitivity of the synaptic nerve junctions. Such
activity was seen to be "remembered" by the cell through
greater sensitivity at specific inputs. Harvard scientists listed 117
molecules involved at the synaptic junctions which could increase
such sensitivity. These chemicals assisted in linking neural paths to
create increased levels of activity between neurons in different
areas. Can a few speed dial links explain the phenomenal range and
depth of human memory?
Human
Memory Research Mistake
How Does PKMzeta Affect Memory Formation?
Recently,
Dr. Sacktorat discovered a substance called PKMzeta, which was
present and activated in neighboring cells with speed-dial links. The
PKMzeta molecules formed into precise fingerlike connections among
brain cells that were strengthened. The molecules remained in place
to sustain the speed dial links, which enabled heightened responses
to danger. However, when a drug, which interferes with PKMzeta was
injected directly into the brain, the animals forgot their fear. The
animals even forgot a strong disgust they had developed for a taste
after the administration of the drug. It was hoped that by disabling
LTP, the drug could blunt painful memories and addictive urges. The
ability of LTP to handle urgent messages does not explain how the
system remembers last night's dinner menu.
Human
Memory Research Mistake -
Is LTP The Basis For Memory Formation?
While
LTP can establish “speed dial links,” combinatorial memories are
required for the galaxy of events, remembered by the nervous system
daily. People are reported to be able to recognize every one of
10,000 images shown to them at 1 second intervals. Such memories
involve combinatorial arrangements of millions of pixels. Even habits
require memories. The intricate movements of centipedes and horses
need colossal memories. The graceful steps of a ballet dancer are
learned through tedious practice. They require millions of motor
memories repeating thousands of time a second. Such independent
combinatorial memories are stored at such speeds and deal with
memories of the whole nervous system for daily events. The “Dial
100” character of LTP cannot be the basis for such memories.
Human
Memory Research Mistake
What Is Branching?
Memory
research follows many leads. One clue relates to the branched inputs
of nerve cells, called dendrites. Branch growth is assisted by a
protein called cypin. Some memory disabilities were related to
deficits in cypin. So, one possibility was that nerve cells grew new
branches to store memory. New branches could represent added memory.
But, when the size and scale of human memory is considered, the idea
of branches, however microscopic, growing to add memories sounds
perilously cancerous.
Human
Memory Research Mistake
What Is The Role Of The
Hippocampus?
Damage
to the hippocampus, a component of a region of thebrain called the
limbic system, is known to cause patients to forget ongoing events
within a few seconds. But, incidents from childhood and early adult
life were still remembered. Memory had faded from a couple of years
prior to the event that caused damage to the hippocampus. Older
memories were still retained by the patient even without the
hippocampus. Research has identified the role of the organ in storing long term contextual episodic memories all over the cortical regions.
Human
Memory Research Mistake
Can Maths Explain Human Memory?
The
brilliance of the mind can only be explained through the pattern
recognition process. But, since scientists favor maths, neurons, the
basic building blocks of human intelligence, are assumed to be
computers. Nerve cells are presumed to compute, not recognize. So,
memory research failed to note the significance of neurons in the
discovery of combinatorial codes. Combinatorial codes can store
astronomically large volumes of data and can explain the immense
wisdom of the mind. This website suggests that the mind functions by
remembering and recognizing patterns. Combinatorial codes store human
memory for both events and for habitual muscular responses.
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