Saturday, October 25, 2008

The mneme and the anti-mneme

Now we know it is hard to say what a mneme is, but despite how extremely global the definition is, some properties can be extracted. One finding I have found is that perspective is key specifically multiple perspectives. However, a mneme's perspective is a bit different from a human's so a multi-perspective view requires understanding a single one.

From any given mneme it is assumed there is both not only higher and lower, but also equal mnemes. Now it must be noted that equal here does not mean the same, I am only speaking of hierarchical level, It could be of equal level but in a completely separate realm (hypothetically one in the temporal lobe and one in the occipital lobe). These two are physically distant, but could effectively be close in the mneme realm due to the relay capacity of the thalamus.

The best way i have been able to represent the mneme realm is a vacuum containing numerous indistinct mnemes fighting to survive. A seeming necessity for me is to personify the mnemes in a way that they in their own way have desires and almost even emotions just as a full human brain would. The only desire of any mneme can be generalized as the desire to expand and proliferate within the mind. However, as i have said earlier, everything that is thought of is a mneme, and this includes the mneme realm that I am speaking of. However, the mneme realm is the higher mneme in this situation, while the lower ones are fighting to proliferate within this particular idea. Effectively the mneme realm is both the known universe to the lower mnemes, as well as their own little personal god to be appeased.

Now, why would the mneme realm want to be appeased? Again, because this is a mneme in it of itself. It's only desire is to expand. Now the hierarchy as begun to crop up; the mneme realm is swimming within its own meta-mneme realm which it is attempting to appease.

If all mnemes want to do is expand, and allowing lower mnemes is all that can be done to expand itself, then what stops it from simply allowing all inputs to proliferate within itself. Hypothetically if only excitatory neurons existed, this would happen (and the brain would be rather uninteresting and uncomplex). In effect there would be loads of mnemes(if they can even be called such) that would just appear and waste energy, with no meaning. A necessary evil in the brain that controls all of these problems i like to call the anti-mneme. If a mneme is consisting of only excitatory action, the anti-mneme only consists of inhibitory action (in reality, with this view, each are consisting of combinations of both leaning to their respective polaritybut I'll get to that in a later post).

If only mnemes were allowed, in the lower level than a higher level antimneme could inadvertantly be triggered leading to a complete destruction of the original mneme. This goes completely against the singular desire of a mneme. As I said, expansion is a desire of a mneme, but in reality, an evolutionary perspective yeilds that only those mnemes with sufficient expansion and control survive in the brain. It is an imaginary desire without any internal knowledge of the system being necessary.

Now i think thats enough for this post; eventually i will drop the anti-mneme view in preference for the idea that both mnemes and anti-mnemes have tendency to act as either one in different situations.