The Semantic Metabolism

The idea of semantic metabolism is this: when there is an information input into the human brain, such as a visual observation or an auditory message, the information is metabolized by the brain the way a molecule of glucose or an amino acid is metabolized by the cell, or the way a hormonal message entering the cell is cycled throughout the various cellular systems. Since the cell itself is an immensely complex information-processing system, it could serve as a useful model for the information processing carried out by the brain.