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ReadMultiplex.com: A Review Of The Research Behind Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind.
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I first brushed against the idea of a holographic mind in the late 1970s, long before most people outside specialized circles had even heard the phrase. I was still young, still absorbing everything I could about lasers, interference patterns, and the strange ways light could store information across an entire surface rather than at single points. Somewhere in those years the notion that the brain might work the same way—encoding memory as distributed phase relationships rather than fixed addresses—lodged itself in me and refused to leave. It felt less like a theory and more like a recognition of s...
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You know, usually when we talk about a medical diagnosis, there's this like expectation of precision. We treat the human body like a piece of mechanical engineering. Right, like a car engine or something. Exactly. You fall off your bike, you break your arm, and the x-ray shows that jagged white line on a black background.
And the doctor just points to the film and says, well, there it is. Yeah, there's your problem. It's super clean. It is entirely clean. It's binary. And it gives us this profound sense of comfort. You know, we really like our problems to be visible and securely localized in one physical spot.
We want a broken part that we could just swap out. I mean, it makes the world feel tractable. But the moment you step out of orthopedics and into the world of neurodevelopment or trauma or even just basic memory, that whole X-ray machine metaphor completely shattered.
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