Re: memory and improvisation

[jim palmer <jimp@pobox.com>]

> 
> But its very different from "wanting to remember": The mind works 
> (apparently) as a monitor and compares results rather than feeding 
> the music.
> I often loose track if mind makes such observations, because it 
> immediately wants to interfere, but (in my case) its not able to 
> reconstruct what happened before.
> 

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.