If I see a face, I don't compare it to a stored memory and (consciously or unconsciously) to the memory of the face I have. — GraveItty
If I see a face, I don't compare it to a stored memory and (consciously or unconsciously) to the memory of the face I have. How could it be like this? If I compare them, and see that they are the same then, well, how can I remember I have seen the face before? — GraveItty
No one has anything but a preliminary understanding of how memory and consciousness work. Trying to do the philosophy without adequate understanding of the mechanics won't work. — T Clark
No one has anything but a preliminary understanding of how memory and consciousness work. Trying to do the philosophy without adequate understanding of the mechanics won't work. — T Clark
That's what you say. Of course there is. Introspection for example is non-scientific. Even philosophical. Besides, why should science not be included in philosophy? They were a whole once. I can't help it that you have no understanding of it... No offense... — GraveItty
I explained though that it's not computer memory-like. — GraveItty
I'm not looking for a scientific explanation. I already have one. I'm looking for a philosophical one. — GraveItty
I'm not looking for a scientific explanation. I already have one. I'm looking for a philosophical one. — GraveItty
Is there a good reason to claim this? Cognitive neuroscience would tell us that the ability to recognise — apokrisis
Because you don't know if it's true, you just think it must be true. — T Clark
In body memory, the situations and actions experienced in the past are, as it were, all fused together without any of them standing out individually. Through the repetition and superimposition of experiences, a habit structure has been formed: well-practiced motion sequences, repeatedly perceived gestalten, forms of actions and interactions have become an implicit bodily knowledge and skill.” — Joshs
It's a fact that the memory doesn't function like storing data on a computer. It's nonsense to claim the memory contains a zillion bytes of information. So there is no comparison. — GraveItty
And even if there was, how does a comparison constitute a memory. I can say that two faces are the same, but that's no memory. — GraveItty
No comparison to what — apokrisis
So there is a kind of comparison made, as I see now. The face is drawn to the trace, so to speak. But there is no litteral comparison. — GraveItty
Is the falling in the same path the recognition. The memory? — GraveItty
Do you want pointers to scientific models of recognition? What you seem to want to say is just the usual way of understanding the associative structure of the brain's neural networks. — apokrisis
The memory as we experience it is always a reconstruction , a reinterpretation of what was. It is a cobbling together of what is new in our situational comportment with channels of interaction with the world already carved in our bodies out by habits of behaving. — Joshs
The brain is no digital computer. Most things leave traces in the brain. There are more possible traces in the brain than there are elementary particles in the universe. — GraveItty
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