Yeah, I thought about that, but long-term memory is hellishly redundant
and distributed, whereas the hippocampus serves the function of sorting
and integrating newly acquired knowledge (short-term memory) into long-
term memory. It seemed the most appropriate place to interface the inputs.
The corpus collosum (note: I'm an arm-chair biologist) seems to be the
conduit whereby thoughts and memories are shared/coordinated between the
hemispheres, so I put the sampling and output taps there. But hey, who
knows? It may turn out that the best approach /is/ to grow millions of
"tapping dendrites" throughout the cortex instead (I'm not even a very
/good/ arm-chair biologist).
>Lior.
>
P.S.: Would your story be available in an archive somewhere?
Thanx.
Dan
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The Metasystem Transition History of the "Dan Plante" System
initial conditions = data (conception)
control of data = information (conception to puberty)
control of information = knowledge (puberty to marriage)
control of knowledge = wisdom (marriage to divorce)
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