more neuroscience odds and ends 2022-02-10:

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-map-of-meaning-in-the-brain-changes-ideas-about-memory-20220208/ [Last accessed: 2022-02-10]

Popham, Sara F., et al. "Visual and linguistic semantic representations are aligned at the border of human visual cortex." Nature Neuroscience 24.11 (2021): 1628-1636.

My commentary:

"no such thing as memory that's separable from everything else";"'naturalization/integration frees up memory/skill that's entangled with it's local context and makes it more globally available. but even then, there's sort of no such thing as memory that's separable from everything." another way to put it is that, there's a sense in which there's no domain general skills and domain general knowledge, but also a sense in which there can be. or, humans furiously generalize, but there's a sense in which that generalization is always "newly context specific." none of this is quite right.

Comment link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30287240 [Last accessed: 2022-02-10]

Summary: people who switch languages may partially lose access to skills and declarative they learned while speaking the original language.

Me: Meditation, etc., can more fully make available knowledge, capacity, skills that are entangled with prior languages but especially prior contexts in general. And meditation can help combine skill, knowledge, etc., from far removed prior contexts to facilitate generalization, error correction, etc., all the way up to (in some sense) fully global models that account for all so-far-encountered used-to-be-anomalies. There's a sense though in which even this is just a recontextualization. Like there's no way to escape "knowledge is behavior is entangled with environment and context", but in another sense it's relative by degrees, all the way up to global (which is partially overlaps with luminosity and is basically coextensive with paying off all technical debt. See also Plato's Camera by Paul Churchland.