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let's examine a particular magic trick: the way of memory.

 giordano bruno was burned for having a good memory. socrates warned against writing things down since the power to write history is the power to direct a nation by deceit.
there is a tale of a man from Russia who had a perfect memory. perfect eidetic recall.
a buddy of mine always pointed out that you could always bring a random dot stereogram test to arbitrary precision until he flunked. the guy who passed would be a God.
due to its full taps of the Internet, the NSA can compare moment to moment data and figure out stuff like CIA media manipulation.
that's one big example, but really that's just how memory always works. what dreams are is just the registered events of the day being buffeted with random noise. reactivation synthesis. the stuff that survives an adversarial process with this noise is stored holographically.
it 'becomes' holographic by repeated, recursive buffeting with noise. that's LTP. memory formation. that's how the self is "made" from "stuff" after "throwness". middle path.
the self is a social phenomenon. it's constituted of social, objective facts. that's why contract law works.
there's no difference, operationally, between the subjective and objective theory of contracting. that's the p-zombie thing (the churchlands).
you can't prove anything with words, just say what is already known. that's the tractatus.
a holographic social memory can be recovered from any of its parts.
that's the purpose of the "rashomon" peregrimmer thing: to show that I can use my understanding of memory ITSELF, the community process of memory formation, adversary at every level, to heal a community. as above, so below. get it? #lawoffunny the joke that is its own explanation
can I get a #freeperegrimmer? this is really HQ stuff, guys.
tell Dan Schacter to keep the change hehe.
and VS Ramachandran and Joe LeDoux, too.
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