In a message dated 10/18/08 8:08:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> By the same token that there's no baseball game so is there no memory. All > memories are reconstructed piece by piece inventions, lies told anew with > every "recollection". > I'd say there are indeed memories -- of sense data that arrived in our consciousness -- "visual memories" off this guy hitting, that guy throwing; aural of the sound hitting the bat, the crowd cheering. I'll bet William's visual memories are much more vivid and detailed than mine. But I wouldn't say mine are "lies" if by "lies" you have in mind "knowingly and intentionally false". Some of what I might claim are memories of sense data are not "veracious" because I simply don't have the strong visual-processing apparatus that William does. So there are lots of lacunae and blurry areas in mine. Other alleged memories of mine -- the ones that are allegedly "false" because I have invented the alleged recollection -- don't deserve to be called "false" because the inventions aren't intentional. Many times I've thought I recalled something I saw -- like, say, the contents of a photo on someone's desk -- but, when I revisit the photo, the "recalled" details turn out to be quite "imaginary". "Wow. I could have sworn that..." ************** New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002)
