In my previous posting, inspired by an abstract I read of an article, I decided to comment about how Clique Space could be looked at as a type of nervous system.
The article I alluded to in the previous posting was published late 2005 by Longnian Lin, Remus Osan and Joe Z. Tsien called "Organizing principles of real-time memory encoding: neural clique assemblies and universal neural codes". It can be found here.
Now, I thought the publication could have been related to my concept, but I didn't actually check this out until nine days ago when I decided to read the article. I was surprised to find that the phenomenon disclosed in the article (viz how neurons band together in "Cliques" to perform some memory encoding function) was a significant part of what I had conceived on my jog between Bellambi and Bulli in 2004.
The authors of this article discuss how this phenomenon relates to how we might remember things, but I see nothing in what I have read about the phenomenon (one article) to say that this isn't how a coordinated nervous system performs many functions. In fact, I would say that a nervous system wherein individual neurones participate in Cliques is probably the pre-eminent characteristic of a stable nervous system.
I'm not trying to pass myself off as someone who knows much. I just have a habit of thinking about this stuff because it's kind of interesting. Clique Space was thought of long before I knew of any debate on the phenomena that I might think it models. The article was very interesting in that at least it may confirm that I'm not stupid.
