18 Of Learning and Memory

The squiggle sense is a key to a virtually untapped potential within you to enhance your ability to learn, remember, adapt and evolve. In Coordination Dynamics (CD), memory refers to the dynamic stabilization of what is learned. The process of stabilization of learned information occurs on many timescales, as in short and long term memory. Memory also takes many forms, like implicit and explicit, recognition and recall, declarative and procedural, and occurs on many levels, from the synapses that connect neurons to the collective memory of entire cultures. How it’s done remains a great, unsolved scientific mystery. In CD, memory, the “lasting effect of learning and adaptive processes”, is recast as “persisting modifications of intrinsic dynamics~functional information.” This is useful. It suggests how learning~memory happens: information becomes functional when it modifies your intrinsic dynamics just as your intrinsic dynamics constrain, shape and modify new information to be learned.