Norman
Allan
| Norman
Allan | |||
On Being Mind
The event
that is happening
me you now
is happening
over time
in the neural network
the computation
is happening
like a song
over time
the computation
transpositions
spill down time
over deciseconds
The
networks ~
the neural substrates of
thought ~
proceed and process
in steps
slipping down stream in milliseconds centiseconds deciseconds
these
neural beats
melodies
spill down time...
mark you, as
do
events in the world...
spill down timprocessing the organism's agenda
-
its interactings in the world
the frog is
looking for small and large moving objects
most important criterion that to
a frog
large and small, smaller than me, bigger than me, or frog sized
to approach to avoid
primary decisions
for the neural nets
or before
that the electric membranes made these decisions themselves when we were single
cells, amoebas in the ouze...
first it was cell membranes making decisions
do
this (let Na+ in)
do that (let K+ out, Ca++ in) shifting electrical potentials
along the membrane
shifts and pulses
electrical
pulses, chemically mediated ion shifts in a membrane
in this vibrating pulsing
living system
living systems are pulsing electrically shifting mass and charge across membranes
where
is this thing that is happening
this pulsing of information
interfacing
with the world?
the mind is hovering
facing
the world
this mind is a facing into the world
and here, on this page,
the world is thought
spilling down time
time is intrinsic to it
it is part of it
without time / sequence
nothing would be happening, surely
if there must
be anything
if anything is going to be
there must be time
without time nothing is happening
the event
that is happening
me you now
is happening over time
in the neural network
the computation
is happening
like a song
over time
the computation
transpositions
spill down time
over deciseconds
The
networks ~
the neural substrates of
thought ~
proceed and process
in steps
slipping down stream in milliseconds centiseconds deciseconds
these
neural beats
melodies
spill down time...
mark you, as
do
events in the world...
spill down timprocessing the organism's agenda
-
its interactings in the world
the frog is
looking for small and large moving objects
most important criterion that to
a frog
large and small, smaller than me, bigger than me, or frog sized
to approach to avoid
primary decisions
for the neural nets
or before
that the electric membranes made these decisions themselves when we were single
cells, amoebas in the ouze...
first it was cell membranes making decisions
do
this (let Na+ in)
do that (let K+ out, Ca++ in) shifting electrical potentials
along the membrane
shifts and pulses
electrical
pulses, chemically mediated ion shifts in a membrane
in this vibrating pulsing
living system
living systems are pulsing electrically shifting mass and charge across membranes
where
is this thing that is happening
this pulsing of information
interfacing
with the world?
the mind is hovering
facing
the world
this mind is a facing into the world
and here, on this page,
the world is thought
spilling down time
Norman Allan's home page. Three Texts: first page
Text One: Being and Stuff Text Two: Strings Between
Text Three: Towards a New Natural Philosophy
