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At 11:50 PM 17/02/02 -0800, "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net> wrote:
>From: Joe Dees
>
> > > If time is intrinsically real, then it doesn't need matter to exist. In
> > >other words, the past still exists.
> > >
> > The past does not 'still' exist; if it did, it would not be the past, but
>the present.
>
>Memory is when something is *mentally* present without being materially
>present.
I have stayed out of this thread but this is just *silly.* The method by
which sea slugs form memory is well understood. This has been elaborated
by William Calvin and many others to the point we have a fairly good idea
of how memory is created and accessed. Not one of the researchers in this
area have ever proposed a non-physical basis for memory any more than they
would propose a non-physical basis for magnetic storage.
Keith Henson
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