PSYC 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Holographic Data Storage, Holograph, Cybernetics
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Karl pibram and the holographic mind: brain as biological super computer: the hologram. Brain uses parallel feedback and feed forward nerve impulses to form neurological holograms, just like how holograph uses 2 beams. Redundancy and plasticity is consistent with holographic storage of information: feedback systems: returning a part of the output signal to the control device for purposes of fine tuning behaviors. Ex thermostat feeds back info about room temperature to device that controls the furnace, turning it on or off: feed forward system: control behaviors of process by providing advance info. Ex to catch a ball, you predict where it will land. Computers do 1 thing at a time, brains are parallel. The basic building blocks of the nervous system are relatively uniform. 45% is other environment imprinting on brain growth. Situationism: supremacy of situational variables in determining and predicting behavior.