Is Perception the "Leading Edge" of Memory?
In A. Spafadora (ed.), Iride: Luoghi Della Memoria E Dell'oblio (1995)
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Daniel C. Dennett Is Perception the 'Leading Edge' of Memory?Consciousness appears to us to consist of a sequence of contentful items, arranged in a sequence, the so-called "stream of consciousness," in which each item in turn bursts quite suddenly into consciousness and thereby enters memory, perhaps only briefly to be remembered, and then forgotten. I think that hidden in this comfortable and largely innocent picture of consciousness is a deep and seductive mistake. I intend to expose and elucidate that mistake, and describe an alternative vision. |
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