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>From: stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: what is consciousness for?
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Both culture and conciousness could be considered "time sense" some conception
of a past and future.  Creatures with weak minds don't dwell on the past or
future like humans, even though they may have some memories and some capacity
to plan.  Human minds have the power of subjunction- to bring up old memories
into the mind, hold them there, analyze them, modify them.  I consider much
of planning for the future and imagination to be creative remembering, that is
rearranging pieces of memory in new ways.
Culture is societal "time sense"- memories of the past, whether history or
folklore- and directions for the future.


