Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA16954 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:33:46 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: ality Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:28:06 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F151KnNjtZeAY74jToN0002392d@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2002 03:28:06.0929 (UTC) FILETIME=[73F1E810:01C1B43E] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: ality
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:05:21 -0800
>
>Grant,
>
> > >This is getting very complicated. Far simpler if memories aren't
>stored
> > >anywhere but emerge from the act of recollection. 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.
> >
> > Recall it from where?
>
>You mean, from when.
>
>Memory concerns time, not space. Otherwise it's not really memory but
>merely the storage and retrieval of information. In our memetically
>ingrained, mechanistic worldview, true memory is a thing of the past.
>Artificial memory is just that-- artifice.
>
>
"Our" worldview? *You're* the one working with straw, to huff and puff,
leaving us with the morphic will o' the wisp where the straw once stood.
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