Tabula rasa

In the MRM model, the initial memory matrix is a tabula rasa, a white page that is gradually filled during the reconstruction process, while the reconstructed picture starts with a uniform image, and becomes progressively differentiated in the course of time. A reconstruction with the MRM model, in other words, is a set of two distinct reconstructions that are performed in parallel. The point is that this double reconstruction is necessary for reasons that are absolutely general. 

Against the theory of inborn ideas there has been proposed, for centuries, the opposite view that the mind of a newborn child is a tabula rasa where only experience, like a writing hand, can begin to leave marks, and the whole debate about human nature has traditionally been centred on the opposition between hereditary characters and environmental factors. 

The re-analysis of old data, so successfully applicable to pure compounds, is unlikely to be as useful in the context of catalytic studies, since the metadata that could establish the nature of the surface to be modelled are unlikely to have survived in sufficient detail. It could well be that a tabula rasa approach is best for future work. 

Just out of the factory, a computer memory is almost completely blank, except for very restricted sequences of commands that may control elementary procedures like, for example, the appearance of a logo on the screen or the subsequent loading of more complex programs (these self-loading procedures were once called bootstraps ). Core memory is a real tabula rasa, like the brain of a newborn child. In the past. 

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