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Memory : encounters with the strange and the familiar /
When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory-and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considered the improvements in computer data storage, which may lead us into a future when the limits of our m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory-and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considered the improvements in computer data storage, which may lead us into a future when the limits of our memory become less constricting. In this book, John Scanlan explores the nature of memory and how we have come to live both with and within it, as well as what might come from memory becoming a process as simple as retrieving and reading data. Probing the ways philosophers look at me. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780232249 1780232241 |