In article <Pine.3.89.9509261025.B10994-0100000 at lex.lccc.edu>
rcb1 at LEX.LCCC.EDU (Ron Blue) writes:
>On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, Christopher T. Lovelace wrote:
>> That's an interesting story.
>>>> I've heard that it's also possible for someone, in adulthood, to make up (or
>> alter) a story and then retell it so many times that it appears to the
>> originator as though it really happened (they forget that it is a
>> fabrication). It's like that 20-pound Blue I caught off Cape Hatteras
>> last year. . . :-)
>>>> I imagine that the memory of the fabricated story is stored right along with
>> all of the memories of actual events--and with the memory that the story
>> is, in fact, a fabrication. Eventually, after the story is retold many
>> times, the memory for the story is strengthened and the memory that the
>> story is a fabrication fades, so that the story begins to be
>> recalled as an actual event.
>Since these are common experiences then this suggest HOW the brain
>is processing information. For example, you are driving down the
>road and see a beautiful woman. You get closer and find out is a
>ulgy man. Notice that the "idea" is stronger than reality.
>The brain's main function is to take in information and organize it. If the
first, distant, perception of the person in this example suggests a woman
(slender, long hair, etc.), then that percept is categorized as "woman".
However, if, upon closer inspection, more information is added (i.e., a
beard), then the percept can be reclassified ("man").
So, when the observer only had a little information, the "idea" that the
person they were observing was a woman was just a misperception of
reality (not until more information was gathered was "reality" revealed).
>Stimuli are organized by "pure" types that are raised to awareness
>during the perceptual process. The pure types may not actually
>exist.
Hmmm. Been reading Plato, have you? :-)
>>Ron Blue
>
Chris Lovelace cl1779a at american.edu
