Re: Memory

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Sat 31 May 2003 - 00:39:29 GMT

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    At 03:47 PM 30/05/03 -0400, you wrote:
    >Daniel Dennett did what I thought was an excellent job on memory in
    >_Consciousness Explained_. He used many scientific studies to support the
    >idea the memories are not recorded and the reread, but rather disassembled
    >and then recreated.

    Interesting of course, but immaterial to memetics as long as most people remember and can pass on to the next crop of kids that there are 4 balls and 3 strikes in baseball.

    Keith Henson

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