Exactly why I keep all my small clay sketches, for they come alive later. Sculptor AB
On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:15 PM, joseph berg wrote: > 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?
