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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, I think we will learn that memory is a complicated collection of physical effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] StemCells Inc.and Alzheimer's.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:48 PM Jeff Davis <<a href="mailto:jrd1415@gmail.com">jrd1415@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> One little comment: For some time I've wondered if, as these results<br>> seem to suggest, memory is not always lost, but sometimes just made<br>> inaccessible.<br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Well, not only does this research seem to show that, but it's part of the conventional views of memory*: that memory might either be lost through loss of whatever is stored or loss of a means to access it (or access it correctly).</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Regards,</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dan</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, I think we will learn that memory is a complicated collection of physical effects. For instance, every time we remember an event, it rewrites the memory, so that memory drifts. But numbers do not. Equations usually do not. But memories of events drift in accordance with our general outlook. This effect is driving me nuts in my own efforts to write my memoirs: they come out a lot more interesting and funny, generally cheerful, happy and fun, when the events at the time were more towards neutral or even negative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I treasure old friends with whom I shared experiences. I like to talk to them and see how well our recollections agree. I have at least one friend whose old memories have drifted towards the negative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK friends, which is it with you? Do your old memories drift? If so, which way? Why do you suppose? Are there other axes besides positive/negative? Such as boring/interesting? Weird/normal? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>