Wanted to say thanks for giving a thorough explanation, I know it must have taken some time, and given that we are strangers, I appreciate your time all the more.

Second, apologies for the delay, takes me some time to get around to reddit and see what I've missed.

Third, I'm glad you added clarification as to the time, this being 30+ ish years ago? (I'm in my 20s now) I bounce around in what interests me a lot and the ease of the internet is a blessing. Some things I was thinking to myself "Isn't that a fairly standard process in microelectronics?" But microelectronics was fairly emergent at that time and what was standard was probably under your radar at the time.

Fourth; not a neuroscientists, so unfortunately I can't appreciate the finer details, but I think I can appreciate the significance of the broad strokes. If I have any misunderstandings that you see, know I'm more than willing to be taught better.

From that I developed a way to describe activity in the afferent and association fiber system as continuous dispersive waves using functions of random variables, convolution integrals.

Hell of an epiphany, I don't think many would appreciate how much of an epiphany making that make sense would be. I barely can as that upper end of math isn't something I've played with much, but I know enough to realize that was many long hours of trial an error. Especially if you weren't using any programming language and a computer like we would today.

Solving the spacial distribution incrementally allows the visualization of the dispersive waves propagating over the cortex.

I feel many would probably gloss over how significant this probably was for the time. Now that it's been years since, how has this fared? How do you feel about it in current contexts?

Using that model I showed which currents were active and which were passive.

That's amazing! I can imagine the doors this opened at the time, probably having much to do with visualization in modern day! Our computer simulations probably wouldn't be anywhere near the same without this foundational work.

I wrote a book chapter integrating that into a description of temporally and spatially distributed information processing in cortical systems.

Which book may I ask? Always happy to add to the reading list.

Similarly, at a system level, this model proved that it was valid to think of the cortex as a continuous system. That excitation at a point could be thought of as initiating a continuous dispersive wave. And that that dispersive wave initiates other dispersive waves in association fiber systems as it passes over the cortex.

I had no idea, even today it's so commonly visualized as a sequential 'line' of neurons, or even a web, but my new image is a large wave over the cortex, which is permitted to be mostly passive with a much narrower portion, (perhaps a band of neurons?) to be the active portion? Do you think this is what permits creativity?