Brain and computer memories analogous
Memory formation in the human brain must be sufficiently similar to memory formation in a computer for the argument to work. In the article cited below, L.S. Schulman makes this case - though with less than total conviction because of our lack of knowledge amount how brains work.
CONTEXT(Help)
-
The Arrow of Time  »The Arrow of Time 
▲
The experience of time »The experience of time
▲
Passage view components »Passage view components
▲
Flow and direction of time? »Flow and direction of time?
▲
Memory accretion hypothesis  »Memory accretion hypothesis 
▲
Direction is that of memory accretion »Direction is that of memory accretion
▲
Why aligned with thermodynamic arrow? »Why aligned with thermodynamic arrow?
▲
Information theoretic explanation »Information theoretic explanation
▲
Argument from computation »Argument from computation
■
Brain and computer memories analogous
●
Memory encoding a physical process »Memory encoding a physical process
●
Substrate neutrality »Substrate neutrality
●
Computers not bound to Landauer's Principle »Computers not bound to Landauer's Principle
+Comments (0)
+Citations (1)
+About