Stephen Pinker on Memory - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Memories: mental repetition of representations without the original stimulus. See also stimuli, knowledge, learning. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Pinker, Stephen Books on Amazon	Memory	I 153 Memory/Pinker: thoughts are not stored as a whole, but composed of terms. --- I 157 Not every statement can be assigned to a memory space: too much energy loss. --- I 158 Memory/Pinker: 1. "episodic" or autobiographical, 2. "semantic" or general knowledge memory - wired according to different patterns. --- I 177 Memory/Pinker: not sound chains but delimited words are stored. --- I 180 PinkerVsPlaton: no impression in wax, no "resistance" - there are indelible memories. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Pi I St. Pinker Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998

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