Good Evening/Good Morning. I feel as though I am in class again hearing your conversations, crabber, John, Dionysianexile. We started from the subject of hermie memory to the rest of the forum, quite a segway, but very useful.
Yes, let's consider all that we learn as a platform for more learning. Not everything we have read and have learned will be as it appears tomorrow. And my feeling is that we might consider all that is around us as unproven - even the strongest, most substantiated of scientific speculations or studies (they say) are never perfectly proven. So this means that the concepts we hold or have discussed in this forum thus far may be believed, trusted, logical, experienced, understood no less, but may not be truth (in part or completely).
All I am saying is that we have been given wonderful curious natures and a healthy love for learning. It's great to find others who are as interested, in similar things and perhaps things that are quite foreign to another reader. Let's try to accept these individualities as a grounds for bettering our own thought processes. We certainly continue to search and learn because we don't have all answers. Sometimes the more we defend our own beliefs, the more closed-minded we become, which may actually be a disservice to ourselves and to those we are info-sharing with who we are responsible for.
Coincidentally, crabber & John - on the subject of memories again, moving from the psychological to psycho-biological - have you ever read Candace Pert's Molecules of Emotions - where she discusses the concept of memory as not only a function of the brain, but of cells of the body (peptide chains)? She chooses not to differentiate between the mind and body for the function of memory, deciding to use the term "bodymind."
And, Dionysianexile - if you are going to be reading more on the Chaos Theory, I'd picked up a book a little more than a summer ago by Philip Ball called Critical Mass (actually, the bright yellow color of the book jacket is what caught my attn
, but as soon as I began to read the reviews, realized it would be a decent read). Ball is a fairly young physicist and touches on this subject as it relates to people, economics... ps, congrats on nearing the end of your undergrad studies. I'm going to keep an eye open for more data on the way memory works for our little crabbie friends - it's a good question. If anyone else finds any relavent materials that they can post, that would be great. Inquiring minds...
