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>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: ality
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:39:42 -0500
>
>On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 12:35 , Scott Chase wrote:
>
>>Reconstruction, itself, might not be so bad a way of looking at memory
>>retrieval processes. If I'm trying to recollect some long ago
>>experience based on vague fragments that aren't cueing up to their full
>>potential, its possible that I might add something that wasn't there to
>>begin with, creating more than recreating the original experience.
>>Someone asking leading questions could result in my totally garbling
>>the recollection.
>
>The whole question of 'false memories' tags onto this discussion, and
>both buoys and distorts it. It is also a very complex issue, one
>inhabiting the very nature of memory itself.
>
>Memories may, at all times, always be a process of construction.
>
>
Your fellow Harvardian Daniel Schacter has written about false memories. I
could stand to re-read his discussions of this issue some time. Too busy
right now frying other eggs reading David Bidney's _Theoretical
Anthropology_. He has some good stuff about Durkheim and Levy-Bruhl and
"social facts"/collective representations. Also he talks about Bastian's
*Elementargedanken* ("elementary ideas") which may relate to Jung's
archetypes in some ways, along with Jakob Burckhardt's "primordial images"
IMO. Julian Huxley got me interested in Bidney.
There's a part where Bidney related conceptions of individuals as passive
carriers/vehicles for cultural stuff too, but I'll need to ruminate on that
one.
In your meanderings about Harvard have you met Schacter?
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