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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Yes, they could be stored somewhere else, but they are still stored somewhere. Ian said "I just consider memory to be a particular conscious experience, and they are no more stored than any other conscious experience." |
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'I certainly don't think memory is stored anywhere' I took it to mean not localized anywhere in our 3 dimensional space ....outside space, or at least outside normally perceived space.
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I think it would be hard to argue that a memory is a filtered glance at a static point in (past) time. There is just too much difference between my memory of a past event and the actual event.
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Paul, perhaps human memories are modified by creatively recalling them, after which we can recall memories of memories and we blur the ability to tell the original memory from later memories about those events. I doubt the original memories (wherever these are stored) are damaged just we blur these with later memories which share some sort of resonance due to similarity.
Whilst computer programmers may feel perfect recall in computer memory is superior and nature has something inferior ...... arguably filtered memory, imperfect memory, allows greater lateral thinking to similar ideas or memories, filling in gaps creatively, etc... all useful for survival.
Actually I have been thinking hard about ways to do so ..... I'd like to do it on the internet in some way .... but the last thing I want to create is another mind numbingly dull zener card like test .....something creative yet strictly controlled
Cheers Paul