From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Wed 12 Mar 2003 - 05:42:48 GMT
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Grant wrote:
> Sure, I passed it on by performing it
Yeah, you surely did perform, something, maybe something quite close to
your memory of the performance.
And that's what's in your mind- the memory of the performance. I ain't
sayin' you don't got memories, I'm just saying that _nothing_ got
'passed' from you to your son, or from your dad to you. You, and he,
might just, however, remember a performance, and the time/space of
culture might just remain constant enough, or recover enough
properties, to enable you to perform using your memories.
> Most of what I know how to
> do is stored in the same way, waiting to be used
Yup. And a lot of things you don't know, that either are autonomic or
unconscious, get performed as well, in the time/space of performance.
What the performance model _denies_ (and IMHO it's totally justified in
doing so), is any magical thing that gets 'passed on'.
What _is_ this thing?
Why ain't it just memory and attempted performance?
Why doesn't your own 'sure' make an impression upon you? Is there
really some reason to remain so religiously attached to this ghostly
memeinthemind?
- Wade
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