LRB on AS

Carrol Cox cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 11 16:08:03 PDT 1998


Doyle Saylor wrote: [SNIP]


> Some kinds of perception such as in vision in the optic nerve track seem
> to a common "ruled" structure to humans. The structure which is
> inherented seems to mediate seeing color, and other generalized
> qualities of vision, and I could accept an inheritence of the these
> structures.

I am not a neurologist and cannot comment specifically on these points, but I should like to note that discussions of perception, memory, etc. that do not take into account the research summarized in Israel Rosenfield's **The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain* (New York, 1988) are again falling into the trap of non-specialists picking on bits and pieces of specialized knowledge and building rather aery structures with it. The brain, and particularly memory, as described by Rosenfield seems to have no room for anything that even vaguely and sloppily could be called "structures."

Carrol



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