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Consciousness and memory for ufologists

Friday, June 2, 2017 13:18

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The book pictured here (the paperback version; I have the hardcopy) is essential for a discussion of consciousness and memory, as referenced by Michael, Terry, and Tim in comments earlier here.

The author is noted (at Amazon) thusly:

Stanislas Dehaene was trained as a mathematician and psychologist before becoming one of the world’s most active researchers on the cognitive neuroscience of language and number processing in the human brain. He is the director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit in Saclay, France, the professor of experimental cognitive psychology at the Collège de France, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the author of The Number Sense and Reading in the Brain. He lives in France.

The idea that memory is beclouded by time and/or aging isn’t exactly true as Professor Dehaene provides in his book (and others, such as Oliver Sacks have noted).

Memory of past events are added to, and corrupted by passages of time or age but such vicissitudes of memory depend upon the individual; some people remember accurately and some do not.

Professor Dehaene writes in his book “ … cortical regions are strongly connected to additional players, such as the central lateral and intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus …, the basal ganglia …, and the hippocampus (essential for memorizing the episodes of our lives and for recalling them). [Page 171]

Many factors affect memory, and while it may be easy (0r acceptable) to suggest that memory is awash in false accretions, that isn’t exactly so. It may be but not as a generality.

Therefore, we can’t throw out “recall” as necessarily flawed.

Ufologists need to curate a UFO report to determine if provided details are intact and actual. This is daunting, assuredly but that’s why I continue to write that ufologists and UFO researchers are inept; they do not have expertise or wherewithal to subject witness accounts to proper scrutiny.

And in the case of Roswell, the “witnesses” are either dead or proven to be liars by the persistence of such UFO investigators as Kevin Randle, who has gone over the details extant to see what fits, what is true and what is not.

Kevin is almost alone in doing that. Roswell investigators go at the incident with an ingrained bias, of the ET hypothesis or some other forlorn theory or speculation. He doesn’t (now).

They corrupt the memory of witnesses. It’s wasn’t the memory, per se, of witnesses that was faulty. It was the suggestive techniques of interviewers that corrupted witness memory.

This is what happened to Jesse Marcel Sr. I think.

Memory may be afflicted by additional input that intrudes over time. That’s why psychoanalysts eschewed hypnotism, in part, as a way to get at past events (memory).

But more importantly hypnotism was eschewed because the hypnotist’s demeanor (latent and subliminal suggestions) often entered into the psyche of those hypnotized, corrupting the material and thoughts (the unconsciousness) being vocalized.

(This may be why the Betty/Barney Hill psychiatric transmissions have been dismissed by science.)

At any rate, memory (and consciousness) are complex and taking a cavalier stance about memory is an avenue to error.

Some accounts of UFO witnesses should not be discredited out of hand, while some can be, as Kevin Randle has shown by a scrutiny of detail that surrounds some UFO witness stories, details that are not a part of memory but gathered to provide certitude to a tale made up.

http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)

Source: http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2017/06/consciousness-and-memory-for-ufologists.html

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