From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun 08 May 2005 - 05:30:47 GMT
I'm finding both LeDoux's _Synaptic Self_ and Rose's
_The Future of the Brain_ excellent reads. I like
Rose's critical bent. He's a little light on his quick
dismissal of memetics and Blackmore, not really
delving into it and referring the reader to Midgley
instead, but he's especially heavy on EP and Pinker.
Rose cites LeDoux's book and refers to LeDoux as
synaptocentric (kinda parallel to the term genocentric
I suppose).
LeDoux, when he's talking about the engram concept
mentions Lashley of course but actually cites Semon
for his coinage of the term and refers the reader to
Daniel Schacter's book about Semon _Stranger Behind
the Engram_. Rose refers in his book to the retrieval
concept of ecphory but attributes this term to
Tulving, which is only partly correct, since Semon
originated it. That would be like saying how _War of
the Worlds_ is coming out this summer, but not
mentioning that it first originated as an awesome
classic sci-fi flick in the early 50's. Sure the new
version will be more elaborate and technically
sophisticated, but the earlier version had its merits.
This is in the context of Rose saying how memory is
transformed in the process of retrieval and its a
dynamic process. If memory isn't static but dynamic
and continually remade, what implications does this
have for neuromemes? Can replicants survive the mnemic
transformative process, if they were actually a result
of replication instead of tranformation in the process
of being passed from noggin to noggin in the first
place? Thus there could be a tranformation between
mindbrains and also one within a mindbrain. The
obstacles for replicationists to overcome continue to
pile up.
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