Monday, March 9, 2009

Reaction to Class 3/2

Honestly, I don't remember much.  I forgot to post about it at the time, and now its gone.  Ah, the transient nature of the memory.  Is there such a thing as true memory?  This book I'm reading, Vertigo, has a lot to say about memory, and whether we can actually remember anything, what with the myriad memory replacements that exist now.  When we see pictures of places we've been, and read descriptions of events we witnessed, the recorded version of it tends to displace our own memories.  We see a picture of the Eiffel Tower from below, and remember seeing it like that, even if we never had that particular vantage point.  The picture replaces our memory, and when we think of our own experience there, the photo has replaced our actual experience of the place.  So therefore, it doesn't matter that I can't remember class, because it probably wouldn't be a true memory anyway.

Just kidding.  The Plato discussion was about what I expected.

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