Bernard Baars wrote:
Yes, indeed, there are multiple memories. Not just the usual collection of implicit vs. explicit, procedural vs. semantic, etc, but even semantic memories now appear to reside in different locations, see recent work by Damasios in Nature, etc.
Er...I think there might be a misunderstanding here, folks. When Keith talked of one memory, he was referring to the systems phenomenal memory: it *seems* to us that we have a single memory of our own history rather than several memories of several subpeople. I think Bernie is using 'memory' in something like the way its used in computer science, to mean a particular place or kind of information store. Just as one cannot conclude from the phenomenal sense of unitary selfhood that there is only one operational 'self-system', the phenomenal singleness of memory is quite compatible with there being several kinds and ways and places to store the various kinds of information that might support that memory.
I dont think I'm disagreeing with anyone, only flashing a red light about a possible oil leak in the communication machinery.
Pat Hayes
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