Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to ConnectionismPhilosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids that rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is new connectionism, in which memories are "stored" only superpositionally, and reconstructed rather than reproduced. John Sutton juxtaposes historical and contemporary debates to show that psychology can attend to culture, complexity, self, and history. |
Contents
traces brains and history | 1 |
Animal spirits and memory traces | 21 |
Memory and the Cartesian philosophy of the brain | 50 |
Inner discipline | 115 |
Cognition chaos and control in English responses | 129 |
Local and distributed representations | 149 |
John Locke and the neurophilosophy of self | 157 |
The puzzle of survival | 177 |
The phantasmal chaos of association | 223 |
Associationism and neoassociationism | 240 |
Hartleys distributed model of memory | 248 |
Reid and Coleridge | 260 |
Connectionism and the philosophy of memory | 275 |
Attacks on traces | 298 |
Order confusion remembering | 317 |
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