ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[David Morris]

On 2/27/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at bms.com> wrote:
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> I have to think about the whole issue of memory of a memory -  circles within circles,  courtyards within courtyards.A cognitive scientist would say that *all* memories, over time, inevitably become memories of memories: that there's no original record "on file"... that small changes creep in every time you re-create the ... and that after some years what you're re-creating is mostly previous re-creations.

But aren't you being a bit self-contradictory when you introduce time
as a factor which increasingly distorts the "original record," which
you simultaneously say isn't really "on file?"  There would have to be
some "core" of the memory which is the original for time to be a
factor in its increasing distortion.  So, yes, you are "recreating"
the cognitive/emotional state, which still has elements that are
true/original to the first experience, so then it is in fact a hybrid
memory/self-creation.  Right?

David Morris