atw: Re: Permanent job; Melbourne (inner west)

 

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> The brain does not always get a full image and then starts 
> making inferences.  If there is an apparently-impossible 
> anomaly, it is changed to fit pre-conceived ideas e.g. the 
> film clip of a girl sitting on one couch who stands up and 
> walks towards the identical couch on the opposite side of the room. 
> She appears to grow taller, but actually the couch on the 
> opposite side is miniaturised - the image was adjusted to 
> accord with previous experience.  
>  
> That may explain why witness statements can be so different. 
> 

Each brain is unique in perspective. The dynamics of nature/nurture lead to
a 'small world' network emerging from the genetically-determined 'regular
network' where 'all is connected' as potentials - this relates to our
grounding, as a determined species, in symmetry and our exposure of the
regular and its potentials to a 'random network' - aka our environment - to
elicit actuals.

When developing consciousness and our sense of self (first few years of life
followed by decades of training) we 'disambiguate' identity, introduce
difference to sameness. The advantage of developing uniqueness is an
increase in bandwidth of the species as a whole. This enables the ability
for one individual amongst billions to change the mindset 'overnight' due to
some unique perspective that is exploitable by all.... and so witness
statements cannot be 'same' due to the dynamics of consciousness focused on
mediation where such may IN GENERAL present agreements but in particular
will always be unique.

The development of memory appears to stem from rote learning through
dichotomisation and recursion. Such will, over time, develop into a rich
associative memory grounded in constructive/destructive wave interference
where such would include similar patterns sharing space (the superposition
principle serves to compress data) and context being the extractor of the
data (like a reference beam of a hologram) - sometimes things can 'slip' ;-)


Sensory system development includes synaesthesia issues - mixing of sense
data such that here again is genetic diversity allowing for increase in
sensory bandwidth that includes distortion of perception (that is, to the
person with the distortion, considered 'normal'. In the initial stages of
sensory system differentiations (first few years of life) infants will show
sensory 'confusion' e.g. "This tastes RED" but this will diminish in most
but not all - some carry the confusion into adulthood. The emphasis seems to
be on sensory harmonics where all are converted into the language of the
neuron - frequencies/wavelengths/amplitudes and such can allow for what is
'confusion' for some, a 'unique perspective' for others.

It is possible to identify general characteristics of specialist groups in a
collective (MBTI etc does that) but not the unique being - we can get close,
even up to 70%-90% - but there is the 10%-30% that covers a unique
consciousness and so is not copyable etc and ensures the diversity of
witness statements as it does the differences in user interface designs and
how people want to use on-line help!

This then gets into bottom-up design (all degrees of freedom are available)
vs top-down design (reduction of degrees to elicit some formal pattern) and
so programmers(we can do anything!) vs management (not on THIS project!),
witnesses vs the formalisation of their statements.

Chris.


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