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...minute electric impulses simultaneously. The combination of all these patterns, says Larry Squire, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego, "gives you a complete perception. The persistence of the firing patterns over time gives you the transformation from perception to memory of that object." The fact that many overlapping patterns are stored together means that a single stimulus can bring on a flood of remembrance-as Marcel Proust's taste of a cookie triggered intense memories of his childhood, which in turn inspired him to write his monumental Remembrance of Things Past...
...coming, the surge of interest in things cerebral has already produced tantalizing results. It turns out that the phenomenon of mind, of consciousness, is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected. Descartes was right in one sense: the mind is not a physical object, and while it exists within the brain, it has no particular location. The destruction of any given part of the brain can severely alter the mind in one way or another but not destroy...
University of Washington neurosurgeon Dr. George Ojemann has discovered, by probing the brain with electrodes, that some neurons turn on when one is silently naming an object to oneself but not during reading and vice versa. In one bilingual patient he found neurons that were activated by Finnish but not English. In another he found neurons that changed activity with English but not Spanish. And, marvels Ojemann, "the neurons that are active when you hear a word are not active when you express...
Several members of Congress said they supportthe measure because thay object to universitiesthat push away the Defense Department with onehand while accepting its money with the other...
...establish a genuine religion, requiring, for example, that one pray to the President or the Speaker of the House. But all we are being asked is that we treat the flag, whatever "the flag" turns out to be, like an image of the Ineffable One--and who could object to a little harmless idolatry...