Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA13315 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 12 Feb 2002 07:56:31 GMT Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:50:50 -0800 Message-Id: <200202120750.g1C7oojj023758@mail25.bigmailbox.com> X-Authentication-Warning: mail25.bigmailbox.com: www set sender to joedees@addall.com using -f Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.162.88] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: ality Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net> <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Re: alityDate: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:31:22 -0800
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>salice,
>
>> On 5 Feb 2002, at 13:43, Dace wrote:
>>
>> > The mind simply relies on different neurons to facilitate the
>> > recollection. If memories are indeed encoded in the brain, then once
>> > the relevant neural tissue is destroyed, they're not going to suddenly
>> > pop up in a different set of neurons.
>>
>> It's possible because the brain might 'double-save' memory. So
>> there are two different places where the same gets stored and if in
>> one place something gets lost it can be rebuilt from the other
>> 'backup'.
>
>This is getting very complicated. Far simpler if memories aren't stored
>anywhere but emerge from the act of recollection.
>
Emerge from where? Morphic resonance woo-woo land?
>
> Instead of attributing an
>artificial memory system to the brain, we should be searching for the basis
>of natural memory, that is, the recall of what was once present.
>
The neuronal-synaptic storage system IS natural, not artificial, and it is from thence that we recall our remembrances of things past (which were once present experiences).
>
>Ted
>
>
>
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