Memory

[Andrew Clarke Walser]

On Wednesday, 8 September 1999, Richard Romeo wrote:

 again, science is fooling around with things it shouldn't--giving humans 
 enhanced memory will destroy imagination--we'll all wind up like Hal in IJ. 
 More is Less

	Yes -- or perhaps we will end up like Funes the Memorious, in
Borges's story.  As the narrator notes:  "To think is to forget a
difference, to generalize, to abstract.  In the overly replete world of
Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details."

					Andrew Walser