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  1. The absence of details (eg, skin blemishes, readable fine-print text, etc) in most dreams means you're looking at an idealised image of what the brain expects or wants to see, without it being checked against sensory input.

    #sleep #dreams #psychology #neuroscience #idealism #fantasy #solipsism #brain #sensation #hallucination #emotion #salience #belief

  2. @Pat
    I believe that is just a #record of an interaction between two (or more) physical #structures.

    Memory requires an entire physical #system able to preserve the #information contained in this record from one moment in time to another until it is retrieved (by the system) and used for something else.

    According to #HvFoerster, the “integrated functional circuit” for #Cognition requires three things:

    1⃣ #Perception
    2⃣ #Memory, and
    3⃣ #Prediction

    Prediction is essential for drawing (memory-based) #inferences

    ” without which perception degenerates into #sensation and memory into #recording”.

    See pp 105-106 in the quite interesting collection of his thoughts Understanding Understanding

    link.springer.com/book/10.1007

  3. According to #HvFoerster, the integrated functional circuit for #cognition requires these three faculties:

    1️⃣ #Perception - without which the system cannot detect and internally represent environmental regularities,
    2️⃣ #Memory - without which the system has only throughput (cannot learn)
    3️⃣ #Prediction - or the faculty of drawing #inferences, without which perception degenerates into #sensation and memory into #recording.

    Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition - pp 105-106