Just heard two leading luminaries of studying consciousness casually revealing their respective convictions that bees are conscious, and that libraries are conscious, followed by a presentation about how we can reconcile our differences with more data. Data may not always help...
I thought that wm and delayed recall depend on different mechanisms? Wm can hold its dynamic state for as long as it is not replace by something else (or decays during sleep), while delayed recall requires persistent storage and the ability to reconstruct it later as wm content?
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You’re right, they do depend on different mechanisms, which is why I often see people with intact WM but impaired delayed recall. The intriguing part is that people with great WM are so unaware that they may have asked the same question just a few minutes earlier.
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The point being that long term memory is a critical integrating factor for a sense of self, and it can be disintegrated, even when a persons WM or “consciousness” as a whole is not. It proves how impermanent our sense of self really is.
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