Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA03801 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:27:02 GMT Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:21:29 -0800 Message-Id: <200202180521.g1I5LTv07786@mail23.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.163.167] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: ality Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net> <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Re: alityDate: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:05:21 -0800
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>
>Grant,
>
>> >This is getting very complicated. Far simpler if memories aren't stored
>> >anywhere but emerge from the act of recollection. Instead of attributing
>> >an artificial memory system to the brain, we should be searching for the
>> >basis of natural memory, that is, the recall of what was once present.
>>
>> Recall it from where?
>
>You mean, from when.
>
>Memory concerns time, not space. Otherwise it's not really memory but
>merely the storage and retrieval of information. In our memetically
>ingrained, mechanistic worldview, true memory is a thing of the past.
>Artificial memory is just that-- artifice.
>
By your definition, memory does not exist, for that which is known as memory is precisely the retrieval of presently existing cortically stored information concerning a past experience. The rest of us call that memory. Your definition of memory represents a referent that is not a thing of the past, precisely because it not only is not, it never was.
>
>Ted
>
>
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