Proposition

If processes within a system express similar patterns on different scales, the scales themselves must follow an infinitely-large scaled pattern in order for the system to be of the infinite order.

Question answered

Does the associative memory that the brain keeps play a role in speeding up the process of transmitting information from the sensory outlets to the brain? In other words, when you taste something sweet, does knowing how sweetness tastes and that what you're tasting is supposed to taste that way contribute to the speed of the process of registering the taste of what you are eating inside the brain?

Answered on: 04/03/2007

No, but it could play a role in processing the information inside the brain, after they have been received. The taste example is probably not the best, but the associations already existing inside the brain can most likely have effects on the speed, and the state, of neural information processing.