--- "Dr. Matthias Heger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>>>> Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The difference is that conscious perceptions are stored in episodic > memory. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > So you explain qualia by a certain destination of perception in the > brain? I > do not think that this can be all. But it will be as I have said: > Some day we can describe the whole physiological process > of qualia but we will never be able to explain and understand it. It's not that episodic memory is stored in a different place (although it probably is). Episodic memory is the ability to recall events in their proper order in a time sequence. Recalling an event is itself an event; we remember remembering things. We can distinguish an event from the memory of it, and from the memory of the memory of it. This "recursive" episodic memory (reading from memory also writes to it) is what we call self-awareness. Before you were 3 years old you did not have recursive episodic memory. Clearly you were learning, but you don't remember it. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
