{"id":9419,"date":"2022-10-27T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2022-10-27T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:38:18","slug":"cognitive-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/cognitive-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather astonishing piece of research if true: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/10\/25\/could-consciousness-be-a-memory-system-new-theory-says-yes\/\">our consciousness is only a memory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This research reminds me of Theodore Roethke&#8217;s descriptions of plants\u00a0 and how vital growth is even while dying.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/browse?contentId=23706\">Read &#8220;The Florist&#8217;s Root Cellar&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have written about this research in a poem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cognitive Theft<\/p>\n<p>Is reality<br \/>\njust a persistent memory?<\/p>\n<p>Is reality<br \/>\njust a clever predictive algorithm,<br \/>\nmore handy than true?<\/p>\n<p>Is reality<br \/>\na bubbling witches brew<br \/>\nfiltered through<br \/>\nthe unconscious as it rises up?<\/p>\n<p>Is reality<br \/>\nthe unconscious dream of the world<br \/>\nand the consciousness<br \/>\na narrative.<br \/>\na desire path?<\/p>\n<p>We do not experience the world directly.<\/p>\n<p>It is mediated over and over<br \/>\nin a game of tag<br \/>\nwhere our unconscious sense and memory<br \/>\nare always just a little bit ahead<br \/>\nand mediated by<br \/>\nour consciousness,<br \/>\nnever &#8216;it&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9421\" src=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980.png 734w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980-160x240.png 160w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pablo-2022-10-27T083325.980-150x225.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather astonishing piece of research if true: our consciousness is only a memory. This research reminds me of Theodore Roethke&#8217;s descriptions of plants\u00a0 and how vital growth is even while dying.\u00a0 Read &#8220;The Florist&#8217;s Root Cellar&#8221;. I have written about this research in a poem. Cognitive Theft Is reality just a persistent memory? Is<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/cognitive-theft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-clmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9423,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/9423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}