The piece of text you highlighted was exactly what I had
wanted to draw your attention to. What I find amazing about
our brains is that we can instantly jump from one thought
to another -- our thinking is purely based on association.
If you compared that with computers, you would see that we
are still far from obtaining a machine capable of thinking.
My project is indirectly concerned with this issue.
I sometimes wonder what impact senility or Alzheimer's
would have on me. Knowing that our whole life depends on
our flow of thoughts, what would happen if these were
uncontrolled or malfunctioning?
One thing I cannot stand is this: young women who marry
(much) older males in the search for money and fame. It is
one instance that shows how rotten and twisted our
supposedly cultured world really is.
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----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harvey Tobkes" <harveyT@prodigy.net>
To: "Roy "Schesty" Schestowitz" <sch@danielsorogon.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: Web & Mind Again, Again
>
> Re: Web and Mind
>
> Yes, I was able to open the Lectures with Adobe Acrobat
but I am not smart
> enough to follow what they mean exactly.
>
> Are they meant to show that the web imitates the
processes of the mind or
> that programming on the web should follow the logic of
the mind’s thought
> processes? I don’t know what the reference is, nor
do I fully understand
> what it relates to.
>
> One of my dear friends is afflicted with
Alzheimer’s Disease and when we see
> the decline of a highly intelligent person due to a brain
anomaly, only then
> do we appreciate its function.
>
> What follows below is clear and brilliantly stated.
>
> The human mind does not work that
> way. It
> operates by association. With one item in its
> grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is
> suggested by the association of thoughts, in
> accordance with some intricate web of trails
> created by the cells of the brain. It has other
> characteristics, of course; trails that are not
frequently
> followed are prone to fade, items are not fully
> permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the speed of
> action, the intricacies of trails, the detail of mental
> pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in
> nature.
>
>
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