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Willshaw, Buneman and Longuet-Higgins have proposed a nonholographic associative memory model for the brain1. They also criticize the proposal made by myself2 and by Pribram3,4 that the brain would be organized on the holographic principle. They say: “How could the brain Fourier-analyse the incoming signals with sufficient accuracy, and how could it improve on the rather feeble signal to noise ratio of the reconstructed signals ?”.
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Willshaw, D. J., Buneman, O. P., and Longuet-Higgins, H. C., Nature, 222, 960 (1969).
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VAN HEERDEN, P. Models for the Brain. Nature 225, 177–178 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225177a0
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