Hi Michael,Just a bit more inchoate chatter from me, feel free to respond or ignore as time or inclination dictate -just helpful to me to spin out some of these rambling thoughts rather than have them continue to bounce around the insides of my cranium; again please forgive any slight 'offness' or lack of clarity...
I was sitting out here watching the trees grow and found myself wondering a few things...
Does our brain store information/memory/responses as something like fractals -in other words breaking it down to a fractal or small repeatable pattern, or maybe even say a 'fractal primitive' for lack of a better word as a sort of a small chain of related objects that could be repeated in a fractal fashion. For example is there a root 'fear fractal' which is the same for a little anxiety and full-blown-being-chased-by-a-predator type fear, only differing in degree or the number of iterations or layers applied? If something like this is true do we then constuct little 'fractal primitives' or 'precompiled responses' (I guess like a conditioned response) to deal with information and situations we encounter more frequently (maybe stereotyping fits in here as well)?
Two other musings...
-When we talked about this 'super observation mode' do you think it is possible that some mental illnesses may be a dysfunction of this process with continous analysis and observation of too may details, sort of using up too much CPU time?
-I read that between the ages of 12-17 tennagers undergo a sort of pruning of the branches of the brain, removing less used pathways and allowing further development of specific pathways. In this case of ADD for example where you follow too many pathways is it possible that when this pruning takes place, using whatever parameters the brain uses, that not enough 'depth of pruning' is possible because the many branches are given equal weight, resulting in too many branches being kept active, resulting in this lack of development of depth in specific areas or perhaps the brains inability to allocate sufficient gray matter (memory resources etc) to each branch?
Mostly these questions relate to observances of specific challenges I am facing and my trying to make sense of them; this may or may not be just a bunch of babel.
