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Philosophy and Memory Traces - Descartes to Connectionism (Paperback)
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Philosophy and Memory Traces - Descartes to Connectionism (Paperback)
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Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of
autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of
memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous
fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The
other is new connectionism, in which memories are 'stored' only
superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. Both
models, argues John Sutton, depart from static archival metaphors
by employing distributed representation, which brings interference
and confusion between memory traces. Both raise urgent issues about
control of the personal past, and about relations between self and
body. Sutton demonstrates the role of bizarre body fluids in moral
physiology, as philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Coleridge
struggled to control their own innards and impose cognitive
discipline on 'the phantasmal chaos of association'. Going on to
defend connectionism against Fodor and critics of passive mental
representations, he shows how problems of the self are implicated
in cognitive science.
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