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From: cpshelley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
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In article <37034@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
[...]
>
>I think it is obvious that the brain consists of many agencies which are
>"on call", but very few agencies which are simultaneously active.  Our 
>remarkable ability to remember millions of minor facts, or recall some
>minor event which occurred many years ago (and which one hasn't thought
>about for many years) is no more remarkable than the ability of a phone book
>to record the names and addresses of millions of people or the ability of
>the disk drives at TRW to store millions of credit histories.
>

A very interesting post!  How integral do see these "agencies" as being,
ie. how distinct from one another are they?  What evidence exists for the
answer?

Questions, questions... :>
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