Re. the nomenclator, I second that emotion. Re. the torture -- there's still something that's niggling at me as though it's a logical fallacy -- if one is threatened with the erasure of one's memory, and one realizes that w/ that erasure one would not be aware of the erasure, does that not deflate the threat? Btw -- I absolutely loved Eternal Sunshine... On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Torture isn't the point of the erasing in the article. The point was to > hide the crime by erasing all memory of it. > I then wondered about the threat of erasing as a torture technique. > > Ursula, > just now reading your CNN article about memory. > My favourite part is the luxury of having a nomenclator to supply you with > the names of people you meet... > > Julie Krueger wrote: > >> And how does that, then, make it "torture"? >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- Julie Krueger Visit www.VoteForChange.com. Register to vote and help spread the word.