The thing about memory is, what are the essential elements to recall? The other evening my wife and I decided to stop at a favorite place for dinner. I parked the car on the street in front of the Bistro. Afterwards we went back to "our" car. The remote key did not work. Again and again I pressed the keypad. Then I tried the key itself. I noticed the snow on the windshield and thought, wow, it snowed, and now my car is dirty too. My car had been washed just hours earlier. Then I finally noticed that this car had no roof rack but was otherwise the same make and model as our car. There it was, a few parking spots ahead of this car, all clean, intact roof rack, and responding nicely to my keypad. In re-contextualizing the memory of where I had parked the car, I forgot to "enter" roof rack, clean car, and further away parking spot. I just went to the car in front of the Bistro that was "my blue station-wagon". What we recall from memory depends on what salient markers we alert. Or, I'm going into dementia.
WC ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 6:07:44 PM Subject: Re: How transitory is a mental image? In a message dated 12/18/10 6:10:01 PM, [email protected] writes: > What does IIMT stand for? > Indeterminate, indefinite, multiplex, transitory. All notion -- i.e. all consciousness -- is IIMT.
