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On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 09:01 , Dace wrote:
> As I've stated, memory involves reconstruction for the very simple
> reason
> that the past has no spatial or material existence.
Even though it was right there, just a moment ago. But yes, I can
concede your point, on a philosophical level, under one narrow and
semantic definition of 'past'.
> We have to recreate the
> appearance of recollected events.
Says who? Why do you think we all have to be internalist screenwriters?
> We go "back in time" in our minds, not
> our bodies.
And there you go again, putting the mind somewhere where it ain't got
any right being, somewhere other than in the body.
> If, on the other hand, memories are stored in the brain,
There ain't no other hand.
> our
> recall should be as precise and accurate as a computer retrieving data.
You have a truly distorted sense of how memories are stored and how
precise the brain is, it seems.
> That our memories are reconstructed is a problem for the mechanistic
> view,
> not mine.
Au contraire, one has to provide some proof that memories _are_
reconstructed, in the first place.
- Wade
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