Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: The picture that emerges from these theoretical considerations is one of a quilt, some patches of which enlarge at the expense of their neighbors as one code copies more successfully than another As you try to decide whether to pick an apple or banana from the fruit bowl so my theory goes, the cerebral code for "apple' may be having cloning competition with the one for "banana. When one code has enough active copies to trip the action circuits, you might reach for the apple But the banana codes need not vanish: they could linger in the background as subconscious thoughts and undergo variations When you try to remember someone's name initially without success the candidate codes might continue copying for the next half an hour until, suddenly Jane Smith's name seems to "pop into your mind" ...
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