From: Chris Taylor (chris.taylor@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 09 Mar 2006 - 10:21:02 GMT
Right. I have a tricky one (and an old one, but for some reason
I was engrossed in it last night):
I have always considered myself quite lucky in being one of
these people with a jukebox in their head (I can run through
whole albums in some cases). Now I wouldn't claim that what I
imagine/recall is precisely what one might find on vinyl, but it
is pretty convincing, which is the crux...
So am I literally 'hearing' it (could someone _very_ clever
ultimately rig a sensor to a speaker and hear it for real --
sort of 'playing' the (~)meme(plex), or am I remembering the
experience of hearing it (sort of an extended self-delusory
episode)? Is this like what I 'see' which is in fact radically
different from the pattern of light impacting my retinas, having
been heavily processed, mapped onto objects and so on? I'm
pretty sure that auditory cortex will be lighting up, but we
couldn't really say why.
On a tangent, it strikes me that tunes make for meme amenable to
study as we shortcut most of the internal representational issues.
Anyway, logorrhoea sufferers abhor a vacuum
(which is why my carpets are filthy).
Cheers, Chris.
Derek Gatherer wrote:
> Hooray! We're back. There was apparently a disk fault in the server.
> I tried to post last night and it bounced so presumably this is the
> first morning of the new disks.
>
> At 08:57 09/03/2006, you wrote:
>> We ran out of memes.
>> On 09/03/2006, at 6:41 PM, Privat Mogens Olesen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Is this list still working? I haven't received any mails from it in
>>> quite
>>> some time...
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Mogens Olesen
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
>> University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
>> "Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other
>> hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122
>>
>>
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>
>
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