On: Does the entorhinal cortex use the Fourier transform? (2013)

[blattimwind]

> This suggests that our sensory perceptions (and possibly, in the current research, our memories) lose fine detail in a way that can be analogized, if not explained directly, in terms of discarding or losing high-frequency information.

All practical analogue systems are band-limited. This applies to optical systems in the spatial domain, too.

[progr4mmatic → blattimwind]

Wow, reminds me of Douglas Hoftstadter's analogy based congition theories.

[sitkack → progr4mmatic]

analogies are like entries in a compression dictionary, good analogies are like succinct data structures in their ability to approach the theoretic lower bound.