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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
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Date: 11 Dec 88 04:04:11 GMT
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In article <1863@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>In article <1152@arctic.nprdc.arpa> bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) writes:
>>
>>  Good point.  I later realized that the concept of farming that I was
>>  referring to was one where cognitive processing with significant
>>  association to "long term" memory is required.  This is opposed to 
>>  gathering which is to interract with what you see. These concepts are 
>>  normally considered to be agricultural in nature, but I was referring 
>>  to them in the broader sense.  Also I am referring to intelligence to
>>  be the very same processes that allow references to past events.  
>>  This I believe is a relatively recent ( in the last 10 thousand years) 
>>  evolutionary development.
>>
>>  Disclaimer: I do not know what long term memory is, only when it is needed.
>>
>long term memory to neurologists refers to the ability to recall events and
>experiences which happened to the person (animal) in the remote past.
>Certainly animals have long term memory.  If a person is feared by a cat,
>for example, the cat will recognize td person even years later.

   The cat will "react" to its long term memory of the feared person,
   this is not what I mean by significant association.  The primary
   occurence in the last 10,000 years has been the development of
   lauguage, which, followed or coresponded with the significant 
   increases in cognitive processing with long term memory. Primitive 
   man had long term memories, but, did not cognitively utilize it to 
   any large extent until the period of extensive development of
   language. There are a few isolated exceptions to this time period,
   but, for humans as a collective society it has occured only in the
   last 10,000 years. (unless somewhere there is a lost city of atlantis
   or what have you).

  New Disclaimer: I do not know what long term memory is, only that it is 
		  used for extended relational cognitive processing concerning
		  past events.

   Steve Bickel