Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 17 Oct 2002 - 21:59:24 GMT

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    > >From: "Philip Jonkers" <ephilution@attbi.com>
    > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > >Subject: Re: electric meme bombs
    > >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:21:11 -0700
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    > >Joe:
    > > > It's my interpretation of how it might work. Any particular
    > > > synapse
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    > > > be either dampened or excited by a plethora of different ideas,
    > > > corresponding to many different excitation/dampening patterns in
    > > > which that particular synapse might play a part, just as a letter
    > > > may be used
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    > > > many different words. What is important for the identity of the
    > > > meme is the overall excitation/dampening pattern to which it
    > > > corresponds. We must also remember that repetition of an idea
    > > > causes increased electrical stimulation of the neurons and
    > > > synapses involved in a particular pattern; this in turn stimulates
    > > > the production of the MAP-2 protein, which catalyzes the
    > > > strengthening of the myelin sheaths of the corresponding synapses,
    > > > and the growth of new dendritic connections. This is accepted, in
    > > > neuroscience, as a neural correlate of the learning process.
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    > >Just a minute Joe. Myelin sheaths are to be found at the axons of
    > >neurons last I heard. The function of myelin sheaths is to facilitate
    > >faster transmission of action potentials originating from the axon
    > >hillock at the soma of the neuron. One of the big pillars of
    > >neuroscience is that learning (something) is reflected in adaptation
    > >of synapse strengths (serving as communication relays between
    > >connected neurons).
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    > Don't go knocking over Joe's MAP-2 protein hobby-horse Phil. He did
    > say *a* correlate, so I presume that not being *the* correlate there's
    > more to learning than MAP-2.
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    MAP-2 is just the protein produced, in response to repeated electrical activation, that causes the further myelinization of the repeatedly activated channels.
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