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Originally Posted by OneOfOne
I don't know how memory works (very few, if any, do), but that doesn't mean I can't remember anything....now where was I? 
Maybe there are, but the constants are always the same...because they are fundamental to how things exist. The constants may always be the same in every universe...they are, after all....constants!  |
Good stuff, OneOfOne - I'm going to credit you with some really great satire in that last para (hope it was intended!)
As for intelligent design - why don't we opt for
"The Theory of Intelligent Designing" - you know, a sort of
"The Collaborative Compendium from A Work in Progress - edit. A Specific Life-form*" take on the evolution model: though we'd best tread carefully; too much inherent insinuation therein, and we'd also have to democratise "faith" and "perceived wisdom" to the point where "revelation" at best becomes an ongoing experience (like knowledge/understanding) - and purveyors of brand-names could lose more business and ramp up their own inadequacies!
From the little I've read on memory process, it seems that we only retain specific "reference points" and reconstruct repeatedly from these references - maybe analogous to the fewer pixels in a low resolution image where we fill in the detail: reminds me of the scrabble player who invents words to win!
* Harping & Culling 2008