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. I thought we were arguing about whether the sensation of continuity of consciousness could survive this sort of time-slicing, and whether it would be possible from the inside to tell how the time slices were organised in time and space, given no external cues. Stathis Papaioannou _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
