Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Peter Jones writes: > > > Errmm.. if by "recover" we are able to replay them as > > conscious (re)experiences. The memory-trace need > > only contain time-stamps indicating the order > > and timing of the contents of the experience. The > > total structure of time-stamped-stored-experience > > can co-exist simultaneously, just as a the frames > > of a movie stored on a shelf co-exist simultaneously. > > > > The stored experience is not conscious in itself > > any more than the stored movie involves any (ilusion of) motion. > > > > In both cases, that comes in with the recovery. > > That's not an accurate analogy. For a start, a film in the can is not > equivalent to a film on the screen sliced up into frames because there > is no projector and no screen in the can.
Would it help if there were? > Then there is the fact that if > you did project one frame in one cinema, the next frame in another > cinema, and so on, the analogy would still not hold because it leaves > out the observer. To make the analogy work, you would have to show > one frame to an observer in one cinema, suspend his consciousness > while you move him and the film to another cinema, show him another > frame, supend his consciousness again while you move to a third cinema > for the third frame, and so on. The observer would then see the whole > film, and if the cinemas were identical, would not even know he had been > moved, other than due to mere technical problems. I am not (here) arguing that time-slicing is necessarily noticeable, I am arguing that the dynamism of a recovered memory doesn't imply that the stored memory trace itself is dynamic. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
