Very interesting. Are you a philosophy major or just been reading philosophy for a long time?

Can you elaborate on 2a. Experience is an active, not passive process.
How is it "active"?

I think one of the most fascinating things is that 3b. "Memory changes as "new" Experience elicits connectivity and recollection" is actually true and based on research.
What is that called, engram formation? Anyway I have always thought that was a very interesting piece of research.


I really like the argument, it flows well. But there is a "leap" here somewhere, another unstated assumption, but I can't quite put my finger on where?

Perhaps it is from 4 to 5. How do you jump from " wholly situated in memory" to "is reality." I can agree with 4, but am unsure about 5 somehow. I am not sure that it is "entirely memory"  perhaps largely memory, mostly memory, but entirely?

Anyway I will have to think about it more. Thanks for posting, this is much more interesting than a lot of the theology questions.

I wish I were still in Tampa to come by. Unfortunately my wife and I moved away to New Orleans (where she is in grad school for developmental psychology at Univ. of New Orleans.) So, we are rarely in the Tampa area.

How did the presentation go? Do you plan to go on to grad school for philosophy? If so, do you know what philosopher or era or area that you would want to specialize in? I hear some people spend their whole time in grad school to focus in on something very specific, like the goal of being a "Nietzsche scholar" or an "expert on Kant."