On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Very concise and tightly packed, quite similar to the way I tend to write
> poems in English. It occurred to me that this would be quite a challenge to
> translate. :)
Yes, I imagine it would!
By chance, I just saw a link to this article:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/conjuring-memories-artificially-0322.html#.T2-FuMpGLEs.facebook
which includes the following:
"Together, our findings indicate that activating a sparse but specific
ensemble of hippocampal neurons that contribute to a memory engram is
sufficient for the recall of that memory. Moreover, our experimental
approach offers a general method of mapping cellular populations
bearing memory engrams."
Scary stuff. I do wonder how the traditional lyric concern with the
"innermost" aspects of selfhood and personality, its linking of time
with identity via memory, will stand up to this kind of scientific
imaging...
Dominic
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