One thing to consider, to further your thought exploration: it seems that in the human brain, both data and logic use the 'same hardware', i.e. storage and processing are reliant on the same physical structures. Memory, for all we know, is a factual impression whose topology is closest to giving it 'meaning'.
I picture it as having a mesh+distributed multi-CPU system, wherein CPU/core 'cache' is in fact all of memory (no 'external' RAM or cold storage, physically). Data seems sharded between CPUs, i.e. topology of neurons (notably diameter of 'network connections', axons and dendrites).
I can picture indeed chunks of data 'lighting up' and enabling some partial processing during REM / dreams. Another crucial observation, I think, is related to "EMDR" (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). It's both the natural way we deal with small traumas in our sleep, and has become a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences (think horrors of war, grave assault, etc).
This is purely mechanical and essentially helps de-correlate emotions from memory, i.e. you de-sensitize memory, learn to think about X without feeling the PTSD.
There is also a fundamentally "adversarial" discourse in the human consciousness: internally we both speak "as" and "to" ourselves, we freely move from "I" to "you" in monologue.
I don't have a proposition to tie all this. Just sharing food for thought.
One thing to consider, to further your thought exploration: it seems that in the human brain, both data and logic use the 'same hardware', i.e. storage and processing are reliant on the same physical structures. Memory, for all we know, is a factual impression whose topology is closest to giving it 'meaning'.
I picture it as having a mesh+distributed multi-CPU system, wherein CPU/core 'cache' is in fact all of memory (no 'external' RAM or cold storage, physically). Data seems sharded between CPUs, i.e. topology of neurons (notably diameter of 'network connections', axons and dendrites).
I can picture indeed chunks of data 'lighting up' and enabling some partial processing during REM / dreams. Another crucial observation, I think, is related to "EMDR" (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). It's both the natural way we deal with small traumas in our sleep, and has become a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences (think horrors of war, grave assault, etc).
This is purely mechanical and essentially helps de-correlate emotions from memory, i.e. you de-sensitize memory, learn to think about X without feeling the PTSD.
There is also a fundamentally "adversarial" discourse in the human consciousness: internally we both speak "as" and "to" ourselves, we freely move from "I" to "you" in monologue.
I don't have a proposition to tie all this. Just sharing food for thought.