From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 20:56:10 MST
All of the other mental modalities have their source in
perception. Memory comes directly from perception, knowledge
is the subcless of former memories that have been narratively
compressed or abstractly represented, imagination is comprised of
perceptions and memories deconstructed and components of them
recombined, and cognition is the deconstruction and
recombination of components of perception and knowledge.
Memory is restricted to the reproduction to some degree of a
segment of past perception, complete with a spatiotemporal
perspective; thus memory is diachronic and positional. On the
other hand, knowledge of an informational datum would not entail
that we be capable of reproducing the experience of learning it;
thus knowledge may be considered synchronic and apositional.
Imagination and cognition extrapolate possibilities from the
actualities grasped in perception and retained in (for imagination)
memory and (for cognition) knowledge. However, imagination is
restricted to a generation of possible perceptions from particular
spatiotemporal perspectives and is diachronic and positional;
cognition is synchronic and apositional.
Although they are all to some degree autonomous with respect
to perception (knowledge and cognition more so than memory and
imagination, due to the fact that the former two have dispensed
with > > spatiotemporal context), they are all directly or indirectly
grounded in perception, and recurse to inform it. Forgetting needs
to be mentioned also. If we consider memory to be an imprinted
representation of presented experience, a perceptual text, if you
will, and subsequent experience to be continually inscribing upon
the same neural parchment, the minor details and routine
experiences would become obliterated first; thus broad outlines
and the unusual would be remembered longer. Finally, the
experiential, that is, spatiotemporal and object-perceptual context
in which the information was received would be destroyed, and
that which remains would no longer be memory, but knowledge.
Cognition deconstructs and recombines these narratized and
abstracted remainders, as imagination deconstructs and
recombines memory images (of all percpetual media, not just
visual) and perceptions.
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