On 17 Jun 2005 23:48:24 GMT, "Buster Mudd"
wrote:
Mark DeBellis wrote:
On 16 Jun 2005 03:14:23 GMT, wrote:
If you hear something but do not retain a memory of it (sufficient to
carry out a certain kind of test), you still heard it. No?
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this book here befo Daniel Dennett's
_Conciousness Explained_. Probably my favorite treatese on the physical
process of cognition & perception -- thought-provoking, challenging,
elucidating and funny to read! Highly recomended.
Anyway, I mention this book because, in a nutshell, according to
Dennett, the answer to your question is "No."
That is an interesting book, and I do remember reading it a while
back, and I second your recommendation, but what exactly is the reason
to think "No"? There are cases all the time when people perceive
things and then forget them.
In a slightly bigger nutshell, Dennett goes on to explain (with far
more conviction & evidence than I could possibly muster in a newsgroup
posting) that there is often a significant & meaningful difference
between What We Perceived, and What We Think We Perceived.
True, but how does that difference play a role here?