Colleagues, In the New Yorker for November 3is an article on mental imagery, which describes a tremendous range of capacities that people seem to have, all the way from claiming no mental imagery at all to having so much of it that one is a constant risk of failing to distinguish what is happening from what has happened. I am hoping I can lure some of you into reading it and commenting on it. Given the work that many of you do, many of you are candidates for "aphatasia" but I bet there are many "hyperphantasics" among us as well.
You may ask how a behaviorist can think about this, let alone talk about it. The beauty of my new-found experience-monism is that it starts with all experiences being on all-fours, and regards the distinction between the here and now, the remembered, and the fantasied as cognitive achievements, not givens. So, as an experience-monist, I not only CAN talk about fantasy and memory, I HAVE TO talk about it. Moreover, thinking about "mental" imagery things as an experience monist does suggests ways of doing science on it. I have tried to drag my mentor Eric Charles out of the behaviorist basin into the expmon basin to no avail. I think he thinks the distinction is nugatory. Anyway, if anybody sees this and wants to Join The Movement, I will be proselytizing on Thuam in a few moments. Nick PS -- I will try to get you the nyker article electronically; if any body has a russian plagiarism bot that will do that, I would be in your debt. n -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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