The holographic brain is an idea that memory and perception may be distributed across many parts of the brain instead of stored in one exact location.

It is useful as a metaphor for a digital garden: one note can participate in several connected topics without belonging to only one rigid category.

Questions to explore:

  • What does neuroscience support about distributed memory?
  • Where does the holographic comparison stop being useful?
  • How should this influence links and topics in a personal knowledge system?