"Thom Kouwenhoven" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (14 Feb 03  18:21:02) 
 --- on the topic of "analog - sound guys say" 
 
 MR> One surprising aspect of the conscious mind is that it works in a 
 MR> serial fashion. 
 
 TK> The mind does indeed...but what dus this tell about the brain ? 
 
It tells us that the brain is concerned with maintaining an image of the 
self. Sort of like how a video camera system, focus, shutter, etc, 
presents an image to the CCD detector IC. Similarly we have a sort of 
movie running in our brains that we built up into our person. We can 
only run 1 movie at a time. If the brain gets sick however, it sometimes 
will break it apart into many bits. Hence psychosis or multiple 
personality syndrome and schizophrenia which is a breaking up of the 
self into many parts. An interesting aspect of schizophrenia is that 
the original personality which normally receives all the information in 
a single stream often becomes inactive or buried; a sort of living death 
or prolonged vacation. People sometimes become cured on their own when 
the original personality re-awakens. Such a remarkable recovery is that 
of the mathematician John Nash on who's life the movie "A Beautiful 
Mind" was based. I watched a interview with him recently and his 
experience of the disease was quite insightful to me as I had lost a 
friend to the disease and later died of cancer perhaps from the drugs. 
 
 Mike 
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