Wednesday, October 13, 2010

If the notebook prompts my recall of memory, does that make it part of my memory?

Sutton: If it is very heavily integrated in my ordinary attempts to remember information, then yes.

So, this looks to me like a version of the coupling-constitution fallacy.

2 comments:

  1. Would this be 'Extended' version of the 4EAC model of mind? 'Extended' would refer to offloading tasks to the environment, or, in this case, would be something like putting down information in the notebook, to be retrieved at a later stage?

    himanshu damle

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  2. Would this be 'Extended' version of the 4EAC model of mind?

    Yes.

    'Extended' would refer to offloading tasks to the environment, or, in this case, would be something like putting down information in the notebook, to be retrieved at a later stage?

    Well, "offloading" is kind of an ambiguous expression. On the one hand, it could mean that I am doing something non-cognitive on paper so that I can do less cognitive work, or, on the other hand, it could mean that some cognitive processing that was done in my head is not by some (perhaps slightly different) cognitive processing with the paper.

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