Re: [microsound] Neural Noise

[Stephen Hastings-King <roachboy@xxxxxxxxx>]

this looks like one of those paradoxes generated by the assumptions
researchers import from one scale of analysis into another--more an
epistemological problem than anything else.  on the order of the problems
that henri atlan takes apart in his "from enlightenment to enlightenment"
book.  the problem would be dragging conceptions of pattern from one
register into another, or taking the experience patterned at the level of
conscious operations and applying them unwittingly (as a frame assumption)
to thinking about how other levels of brain activity unfold--which would be
like applying propositional logic to all forms of patterning organized via
language--it makes some sense that one would do it, but it also would just
as obviously create problems insofar as you would only find what you were
looking for.

have a look at the work of fransisco varela sometime for thinking about how
brain activity works.
it seems that his model would have generated fewer "paradoxes"...

stephen