On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Lew Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> can't grasp how the concept of "stasis" can be meaningfully applied. > All of these vary enormously over time and context. Good point. And along with it is the mutability of memory. How can we determine whether our reaction today to some stimulus is like our reaction in the past to the same stimulus? How can we affirm that the Milky Way candy bar we ate today is just like the Milky Way we ate back in grade school? How can we say that our reaction to X's painting "Y" today is the same as our reaction to in in 1999--or for that matter, that our reaction is different in some way? Memory mediates all of those judgments. Memory mediates something as simple as dialing the proper numbers in the proper sequence you just read in the phone directory as well as the "big" things like recognizing your wife's or husband's face or the painting you saw last week or the beginning of the book you are reading | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
