On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > > Concerning memory, do you have any feelings about oral history?
