Ken Collins wrote in message ...
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This is not what I meant, not at all. Okay, I'll try to roll the universe
into a ball ... . Recently I reread "The Strange, The Familiar, and the
Forgotten" Israel Rosenfield. I had to reread because after reading a review
of it I realised I didn't get it all. His stress on memory function is that
it relates not so much to information but to meaning, and meaning
specifically related to the state of the self. Another text I read on this
lately White Gloves, John Kottre, plays in the same field.
The article suggest the patient has lost his time sense, as if his memory
has been transported back 11 years. I don't accept this. I can't conceive
how this can happen. What I suspect has happened is that the patient has
lost access to many if not most recent memories and upon awakening looking
for action cues or whatever the brain retrieved what it could and came up
with the mentioned memories. So I would like to know of other cases and more
particularly whether or not the personal importance of these first recovered
memories by which the individual seeks to find meaning in the life has been
established. I would expect that these first recovered memories would have a
high personal significance.
Now you know why I need help with this.
John
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