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In an abstract of an article entitled, “Memory: A River Runs through It, in the same issue of
Consciousness and Cognition, Maryanne Garry, Elizabeth F. Loftus and Scott W. Brown writes:
Two decades of research using repeated false statements and underhanded
information have shown that people can easily be made to believe that they
have seen or experienced something they never did. I would argue that the
“some individuals” in Schooler’s study, and the “people” of Garry, Loftus and
Brown study are representative of the cognitively immature, that population
being limbic-dominant in memory and cognition that have the highest inherent
potential for false-remembering and false-forgetting. I also argue that falseremembering
and false-forgetting diminishes with the maturing of cognition
with its dominance in abstraction in free-will in intellect.
The studies confirm that limbic extremes in psycho-somaticness awakened by recall of
experience in trauma, and abuse contributes to a more pronounced false-remembering and
false forgetting.
The limbic system in its dominance is the child of our early stages in evolution and as such is
the bio-brain system child of our species history in consciousness, in memory and behavior,
with all its inherent error in ‘truth’ in memory and behavior. It is our later adolescent post-
H.habilis pre-frontal-lobe and bio-brain language system developments in evolution, that in
their potential in the maturing of our cognition and behavior through abstraction that our
consciousness and memtation as it remained subservient to the limbic-child became the
adolescent bully-murderer, that as an adult Sapiens Sapiens remained captive to the child and
adolescent history in evolution of cognition and behavior of our species in retributive error.
We have the hardware, the bio-brain system, we have the software, the cognitive-science and
educational institutions with which to bring “truth” to our cognition, to our memory and
behavior, to responsibly through the objectivity that free-will in intellect is, to in this Sapiens
Sapiens adult stage of our evolution parent our inherent limbicness to cognitive maturity
beyond that of our species ancient history as a less bio-brain system endowed limbic dominant
child and adolescent of evolution. For only in cognitive-maturity will our species potential for
‘truth’ overcome our potential to “false-remembering” and “false-forgetting,” overcome our
potential in self-expression for fabrication, our own, or a fabrication imposed by someone else.
Since art is in it very alchemy at the heart of the semantic process and logic of meaning, and
therefore central to all self-expression, to all memory, cognition and behavior, the cognitive
mode that drives art, is in its logic the character of its veracity in “truth.” Only such and
understanding of art, as a process at the center of memory and cognition, can we begin to
understand arts process relation to memory, to memories potential in spuriousness and
authenticity, and therefore the veracity of one expression of self in art, however ephemeral or
concrete, as thought, behavior or object.
Of course the art-process, or one could say the semantic or esthetic within which information is
processed is inherent to all creation, to all created things invisible and visible. It began some 12
billion years ago this art we call the universe, a pinpoint of vacuum expanding beyond all
notions of miracle, long before our species was a twinkle in “Natures” eye.
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