Memory, Consciousness and Temporality

Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesi

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NEUROBIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ABERRANT BEHAVIORS Editorial Board: MICHAEL MYSLOBODSKY Tel-Aviv University & Howard University STANLEY D. GLICK Albany Medical College SEYMOUR S. KETY Harvard University & McLean Hospital MORRIS MOSCOVITCH University of Toronto DANIEL R. WEINBERGER National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Mental Health

MEMORY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TEMPORALITY

by

Gianfranco Dalla Barba Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale France

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dalla Barba, Gianfranco, 1957Memory, consciousness, and temporality 1 by Gianfranco Dalla Barba. p.cm.--{Neurobiological foundation of aberrant behaviors; 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-6813-7 ISBN 978-1-4615-1741-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-1741-2 1. Memory. 2. Consciousness. 3. Phenomenology. 1. Title. II. Series.

BF3171 .D35 2001 153---dc21

2001038562

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CONTENTS

AKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................. vii

PREFACE .........•........................................................................................................................... ix CHAPTER 1. THE PROBLEM OF THE PAST AND THE PARADOX OF THE TRACE ............................................................................................................................ 1 1. KNOWING AND REMEMBERING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION ...... .... ............ .. ......... 1 2 . THE PARADOX OF THE TRACE ...... .............. .... .. .... ...... .... .......... .. .. .................... .. .... .. .... ......... 5

3. MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION .. ...... ...... ... ............................. .. ...... .... .... .. .. .. ............... ... .. 13 CHAPTER 2. THE HOMUNCULUS FALLACy ..................................................................... 27 1. MEMORY AND CONTROL SySTEMS ... .... ...... ........ ...... ... ............ .. .. ........ ......... .... .... ... .. .. .. .... .. 27

2. THE HOMUNCULUS FALLACY .................. .. ... ....... ..... ...... ........ ............. ...... ....... ......... .. .... .... 32 3. THE FOUNDATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS ..... ... ......................... ... .......... ........... ................ ... .. 43 a) The problem of the foundatiOns ofconsciousness ...... ...... ....... .... ...... ....... .......... .. ... .... 43 b) The neurobiological anthropomorphization of the unconscious .... .. .. .. ...... ... ...... ....... 45 c) Psychoanalytic anthropom