Rilkean Memory Spindel
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" 4 RILKEAN MEMORY 1 Abstract: This paper identifies a form of remembering sufficiently overlooked that it has not yet been dignified with a name. I shall christen it Rilkean Memory. This form of memory is, typically, embodied and embedded. It is a form of involuntary, autobiographical memory that is neither implicit nor explicit, neither declarative nor procedural, neither episodic nor semantic, and not Freudian. While a discussion of the importance of Rilkean memory lies beyond the scope of this paper, I shall try to show that admitting Rilkean memory into our ontology does point us in the direction of a very different conception of the mind and mental processes. Keywords: associationism, cognitivism, embedded, embodied, intentionality, memory, Rilke. 1. The Roots of Cognitivism Jerry Fodor, with more than a little help from Arthur Conan Doyle, provides a nice example of the sort of view of cognition I am going to question in this paper. Here is Sherlock Holmes doing what Holmes does best, in the closing pages of The Speckled Band : I instantly reconsidered my position when … it became clear to me that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not come from either the window or the door. My attention was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this ventilator and to the bell-rope that hung down to the bed. The discovery that this was a dummy and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole, and coming to the bed. The idea of a snake " # $%&'( ')*+ ,% ,-./* 0%-/ 1&,,%/ 2%3 4+35 -+'62&' 7%88+/,9 %/ +.3')+3 4+39)%/9 %2 ,-+ )(+.9 %2 ,-)9 6.6+3:
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