Interesting - it would seem that this account has certain similarities with that of Aristotle - cf Roark "Aristotle on Time"
p 145 "the memory has propositional content as opposed to objectual content .... acts of memory are reflexive in that the possessor of the memory himself figures in the content .... memory's content is intensional - a certain phantasm is taken to be about something else, to stand in place of ... a certain event that is represented by the phantasm."
p.164 "perceptual phantasms [which can occur for Aristotle in lower animals] come about through acts of perception, while deliberative phantasms [evoked in memory] come to be by acts of mind."
p.168 "He describes active recollection as a search for something preserved in memory, proceeding as a kind of inference, which is why only humans are capable of recollection, though many animals have memory."
Very interesting! This has probably been in the background of my thought at least ever since I read Sorabji's excellent Animal Minds and Human Morals. Sorabji there notes that Aristotle seems to grant to animals nearly everything for rationality, except logos, and this could just be another place where logos reshapes the faculty it augments.
Interesting - it would seem that this account has certain similarities with that of Aristotle - cf Roark "Aristotle on Time"
p 145 "the memory has propositional content as opposed to objectual content .... acts of memory are reflexive in that the possessor of the memory himself figures in the content .... memory's content is intensional - a certain phantasm is taken to be about something else, to stand in place of ... a certain event that is represented by the phantasm."
p.164 "perceptual phantasms [which can occur for Aristotle in lower animals] come about through acts of perception, while deliberative phantasms [evoked in memory] come to be by acts of mind."
p.168 "He describes active recollection as a search for something preserved in memory, proceeding as a kind of inference, which is why only humans are capable of recollection, though many animals have memory."
Very interesting! This has probably been in the background of my thought at least ever since I read Sorabji's excellent Animal Minds and Human Morals. Sorabji there notes that Aristotle seems to grant to animals nearly everything for rationality, except logos, and this could just be another place where logos reshapes the faculty it augments.