Re: memory and improvisation

[Allan Hoeltje <ahoeltje@best.com>]

on 9/27/01 2:57 PM, Matthias Grob at matthias@grob.org wrote:

>> 
>> i heard of a theory of memory where it acts like a pack of ten dogs.
>> you send the dogs out looking for the ball and they run out into
>> the woods, here and there, until one happily comes running back with it.
> 
> I keep reading this and dont get the point... is it about the other 9 
>dogs?

It may be a joke - at least I thought it was funny.  After the age of 50 
you
start running short of dogs.  "Memory is the history of forgetting"  I read
that some place recently.

:-)

-Allan