RE: Cons and Facades - more on truth

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 15:55:45 BST

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    Your example presumably was designed to show the correctness of your
    waypoint argument. What I'm doing here is questioning the validity of an
    example where waypoints are an explicit, conscious part of the knowledge
    being learned by the taxi drivers.

    Whay about a Buddhist monk's learning? Is that waypoint-oriented?

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    > From: Chris Lofting
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:40 pm
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    > > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > > Of Vincent Campbell
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    > > Of course taxi drivers are using waypoint mapping when learning the
    > > knowledge- that's precisely the kind of knowledge they are required to
    > > learn.
    > >
    >
    > this seems a bit (emotionally?) out of context .. the discussion was my
    > emphasis on a link of truth to the distinction of 'correct/incorrect' and
    > the tracing of that feeling to territorial marking and the use of waypoint
    > mapping. The link is to earlier work on rats running mazes and the
    > activity
    > of the hippocampus, the common ground is the method and the components
    > used,
    > especially the hippocampus and its known process of linkage of new
    > 'moments'
    > of conscious experience into some sort of whole.
    >
    > best,
    >
    > Chris.
    >
    > >
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