Bob Mottram writes:
Some things can be not so long as others. ...
Thanks for taking the time for such in-depth descriptions, but I am still not clear what you are getting at. Much of what you write is a context in which the meaning of a term might have been learned, sometimes with multiple viewpoints or refinements. Are you saying that the internal "simulation" amounts to a replay of the sensory context where that learning occurred? It seems like you are saying that an association is a simulation, is that what you mean? In your description, each individual word or phrase ends up with its own "simulation", and the sum ends up as a sequence of unrelated simulations. What does this do that is useful? Where does the understanding of the relationship between the terms, and the meaning of the entire sentence, come from? I thought maybe you meant something like when hearing "John stole the pie and ate it", a "simulation" being something similar to a little movie (I picture a pie on a window sill, John as a young boy snatching it (apple btw) from the sill, hiding behind a bush, and getting rather sticky enjoying his ill-gotten goods). Following your description of the other example though, we'd get maybe the first person named John that I ever met being visualized, followed by a replay of how I learned about theft, and so on. It's not quite what I think of as a "simulation", but if you really mean that hearing or reading language activates memories or concepts, that's a reasonable thing. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
