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> > secondary processing is the use of harmonics analysis and is
> secondary since
> > it assumes meaning exists as set by the primary process. Random
> 'moments'
> > can allow for secondary processing to be applied to 'noise' and
> meaning is
> > generated from 'nothing'.
> >
> > I think there is emotion in primary processing but it is single
> context and
> > EITHER/OR in form, thus the 'correct/incorrect' distinction is felt as
> > Demasio et al found in the left hemisphere of the neocortex;
> there exists a
> > 'feeling' for syntax processing.
> >
> > When you pass the syntax you move to semantics and this is harmonics
> > analysis of that which has been passed as 'correct'. This is
> the refinement
> > of value such that that which was passed syntactically is now painted
> > semantically and becomes an object 'in here' that is then used in the
> > parsing process at the primary level; you get a feedback pool,
> the contents
> > of which now go to filtering 'raw' inputs by attempting to
> assume/presume
> > and so predict. Problems come when this process takes over and controls
> > rather than acts as a guide.
> >
> > I agree that the secondary processing aids in developing more abstract
> > concepts etc in that it takes you away from 'out there' and more into
> > cultural 'in here' but the idealist emphasis is asserted in the primary
> > processing since primary processing emphasises archetypes more so that
> > secondary that is more typal, secondary mixes, primary seeks purity.
> >
> > Initally the archetypes are rigid, colourless. After secondary
> processing
> > they can take-on colour and become more flexible.
> >
>
> has anyone done any imaging of this process by MRIs?
>
There are some demonstrations of an oscillation process across the brain as
we process data and this seems to operate at different scales.
For early work (PET and MRI) see Lassen,Inguar,Raichle,Friberg (eds) (1990)
"Brain Work and Mental Activity" Munksgarrd
as well as Posner,M.I., Raichle, M.E., (1994) "Images of Mind" Scientific
American Library
Also look at the asymmetry of the neocortical hemispheres, although fractal
in form there do seem to be BIASES at work with, in most, the left being
more object oriented and the right more relational (harmonics, multi-context
sensitive, secondary processes).
The left is thus 'dot' oriented biased to wholes and parts whereas the right
is more field oriented and sensitive to static and dynamic relationships;
the right does not see a whole but more so the links that tie everything
together -- the content of the spaces inbetween the dots. From relational
space comes transformations where relational activity goes towards
RE-identifying an object.
Zoom-in on either hemisphere and you find these same distinctions at the
lobe level, e.g. temporal lobe in BOTH is more object biased and the
parietal lobe more relational biased and so on.
best,
Chris.
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