EO] The surfer's waves are not actually discrete isolated things. In reality they are merely local phenomena in a continuous fluid. The major function of mind is to ignore most of what is actually there and extract and compute only on what is most useful.

"Neuroscientists show activity patterns in fly brain are optimized for memory storage." August 18th, 2011.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-0...zedmemory.html

http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synerg...00.html#509.00

Fuller 1975] 509.06 .."What we do when we think is to dismiss momentarily all the irrelevant thoughts as we would part the grass to right and left in order to find a path.

....Thinking is high-frequency interception and very temporary diversion to a local holding pattern outside our consideration of all the irrelevant inbound feedback__just as inbound airplanes are "stacked up" in the sky near airports by the ground control when too many come in at about the same time and may interfere with each discretely safe landing operation.

... Landing is a slowing operation and an exact timing operation. Having isolated a finite set of experiences__spontaneously grouped for comprehensive consideration__by dismissing the irrelevancies, we may proceed to comprehend or "land" the isolated system by applying the theory of bits, which breaks up finite wholes into finite parts.

509.07 We may now say that what we do in thinking, after deliberately excluding the irrelevancies and thereby inadvertently isolating the considered set, is to further subdivide Universe into four parts: ....."

As usual Fuller was way ahead of the pack on this one. Rybo