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Karl Pribram (25 February 1919) was professor of psychological research and cognitive sciences at Georgetown University. He also studied neurosurgery and taught at Stanford University, where he did pioneering work concerning the cerebral cortex.
To the general public, Pribram is most known for developing the holonomic model of the brain, which tells us that the brain and other neuronal tissues store information the same way that holograms do. He called the hypothetical systems that store information “engrams.”
Pribram developed his holonomic model of the brain in collaboration with physicist David Bohm, who theorized that memory/information is enfolded and stored in wave interference patterns throughout our bodies.
Two facts support this theory. First, responsive functions of the visual cortex exist that correspond with Gaborian functions. This means that the eye translates images to our brain in the same way that images are translated to holograms. The second fact is that lesions can be inflicted throughout the brain with hardly memory loss. This tells us that memory is distributed throughout the entire body and is not limited to the brain, thus corroborating the concept of the part in the whole.
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