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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: AIList Digest   V2 #173
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 13:25:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 13:25:24 1984
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> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 1984  01:59 EST
> From: MINSKY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
> Subject: Infant Amnesia   V2 #165
> 
> ...  I like theories like this: our experience is first
> encoded in rather stupid ways; a square is seen as a line attached to
> another line attached to another line, etc.  Like an early
> assembly-language.  Later, a square is represented as "closed path of
> equal lines" and, later, orthognal pairs of parallels, etc. -- going
> to Fortrams to Pascals to LOGs to SMALLTalks to who-knows-what.  The
> representatins and their interpreters grow more sophisticated, and
> those first machine-languages of infancy just can't be always
> upwards-compatible.  So, even if those early memories were not, in
> fact, entirely ever lost, they're doomed to become
> unintelligible, eventually.

This doesn't explain how someone with an edictic or photographic memory
can examine a scene after being exposed to it and discover things about it.
The theory I like says that memories of scenes or situations are stored
as holograms. We simply garbage-collect our earlier memories due to lack
of access, that is, we haven't stored them as instances of anything, so
there are no pointers to them.

Brad Miller

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