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determining what we shall forget and what we shall remember, including much that comes to
comprise a collective-past we can never confirm.
Kilstrom concludes his paper with:
In other words, memory is simultaneously a biological fact, a faculty of mind,
an exercise in rhetoric, and a social construction.
Today cognitive-science grounds our errors in perception to error in cognition out of micromacro-acculturation
and or bio-brain-system damage. In what I reference as factors that
comprise our forming a more or less mature-cognitive-process.
B. Dubrovsky in his article entitled, “Neuroscience and Memory,” begins by speaking of
memory as a process bound to meaning in cognition, as achieving prominence at least in the
west as early as greek and roman times. Praising Bartlett’s experimental departure from
Ebbinghaus, Dubrovsky points to Bartlett’s insistence on subjectivity as essential
for the true test of memory.
He quotes Bartlett:
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and
fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built
out of our relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past
reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly
appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever really exact, even in
the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not at all important
that it should be.
Dubrovsky continues with Barlett’s observation that memory and perception always seek to fill
gaps. I assume that it is in the filling of the gaps that memory becomes especially inexact. But
inexact-remembering implies forgetting and lying, and the denial within ones own mind, of
both. I propose that to the extent that memory, that remembering is led by the limbic-system,
inhibiting abstract-cognition, that this is the case. I propose that when memory and perception
are led by abstract-cognition in free-will in intellect that poetic-elaboration and therefore error
is radically minimized.
Gerald Edelman the noble prize winning biologist in the early nineties provided a bio-chemical
basis of memory, linking psychology and biology, with his theory of re-entry, at least within the
bio-brain limbic-dominant monkey. Edelmans theory speaks of a
synaptic-global-mapping, wherein groups of neurons are selected in a map, simultaneously with
others grouped in their separate re-entry connected selected maps, in a process wherein
perception is correlated and coordinated and strengthened by the strengthening of the
interconnections through the reentrant signaling. Dubrovsky extends Edelmans theory, viewing
the relation of memory to perception, as specific to our ability to re-categorize previousperceptual-categorizations.
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