A2- Wednesday, Jane 1, 1983 - North Shore News EVERY ONCE in a while, my brain just doesn’t work. (Go ahead, say how surprised you are that I think it works at all.) It’s not a‘bad feeling except that it’s very hard to get any work done. strictly personal by Bob Hunter Stop thinking - enjoy! perience of aging by gently erasing excessive awareness, or it’s an evolutionary Catch- 22. Just This is not something I can dismiss as a mere writer’s block. I mean, sometimes, the whole darn thing doesn’t work. It’s like all 12 billion brain cells got together in some sort of Commie plot and shut everything down. . Ym told by a friend of mine, Hal Weinberg, a pro- fessor at SFU whose ‘area of expertise is the way in which a brain stores information, that the brain can't really be trusted. It keeps changing its mind, quite literally. Our memories aren't just memories of what happened in the past; they are con- stantly being stirred into new patterns by the arrival of new bits of information. We just think we remember flawlessly . Every young reporter has to learn that in every event where there are witnesses, each witness sees something slightly different. The truth at best is an ap- proximation. This comes as quite a shock to most peo- ple, because it's hard not to believe our eyes. According to Prof. Weinberg, each new input changes your brain, perhaps Little Terry Just Turned 50! as you understand, you forget! The brain starts off with a huge stockpile of cells but it is doomed to burn them up, one by one, until you're get- ting down near the bottom of the pile. ‘How many brain cells does it take to run a human being? Is there a threshold below which you can’t understand Liberal economic policies any longer? Gee, if that’s the Actually, I have no dif- ficulty with the idea of my brain breaking down from time to time, just like my beloved old pickup truck. It should be noted that during these litle patches of mental blankness, I am invariably quite tranquil, quite serene. In fact, there is a glimmer- ing of a suspicion that when I'm not thinking, ['m actual- Start to miniscually, but these inputs accumulate until they cause a kind of bending of the other bits of fact stored in the hardware of your skull. Memory is built up out of electrical patterns or codes called “templates”, which. store knowledge and shunt it about as required, but we’re dealing here with an in- credibly complex bioelec- tronic field that is continual- ly being modified. Scary. I guess. Qn the other hand, it means our sense of reality is at best somewhat blurred as though we were having to see through water. And when we look back in time we can’t be sure we're see- ing anything other than a mirage. 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