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SO ENDS this first of two weekends on a wonderful paper. Dr Jeremy Butterfield" "Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, MA, PhD, FBA was interested in philosophical aspects of quantum theory. I incorrectly assigned the authorship of this paper to Professor Sir John Butterfield, the diabetologist in the introduction, and made an error. Professor Jeremy Butterfield’s research centers faround a variety of topics in the philosophy of physics and philosophy of science, and he has also made contributions to the philosophy of language and logic, particularly with regard to the treatment of time and tense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield View in LinkedIn

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. “Our predicament is aggravated by the continuum model of spacetime being so crucial to our normal physical description of the world. So we must be wary of assuming that the emergence of time will be like more familiar cases of emergence.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

THE EXCITED NEURON. “The storage of information in such neurons is very costly in energy. Because of this reason, they shall not be counted in the estimate of the memory storage capacity of the system.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

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COLLECTIVE THINKING. “One is impressed by the fact that there are many situations and areas of activity where the efforts of a group produce effective solutions that could not have been arrived at by individual effort.”(Wechsler), page 33. https://lnkd.in/d4sDpAu View in LinkedIn

OUTER FRINGE. “The key is the phenomenon of criticality that takes place in systems with gravity‐like synaptic connections among the bosonic degrees of freedom that can be in highly excited (highly occupied) states. In such states many gapless modes emerge.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

SUMMARY. “Our idea is fundamentally different. Following,1 we suggest that the enhanced memory capacity mechanism that operates in black holes is very general in its essence and goes beyond the gravitational systems. Moreover, it possess a well‐defined classical counterpart. Correspondingly, this mechanism can be operative in the brain networks, both quantum and classical.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

CAVEAT. “Finally, we wish to stress that by no means our result should be interpreted as an indication that the real quantum gravity effects play any role in memory storage in biological brains. Such suggestions have been made in the past and have been partially addressed by [17].This is not the question we are trying to discuss.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

BLACK HOLES & BRAINS. “The above features may serve as a supporting evidence that some version of black hole information storage may be taking place within classical brains.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

GAPLESS MODES. “The considered phenomenon of the critical memory enhancement has a smooth classical limit and can thereby take place is classical neural networks. We have seen this explicitly by storing patterns in the coherent states of the gapless modes.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn