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Picture for Joshua

A month late

daffodils 

Oriental addition

Bamboo

(fargesia)

'bimbo' 

Patio palm

Cordyline australis 'red star' 

Patio gardening

Rock heather

Pieris japonica 'prelude' 

Consciousness and memory

Somewhere in the past week has come into my mind that consciousness is not an attribute entirely contained in the brain, but involves interactions with the world outside in the form of people, images, the written word, visits to places, and so on. This concept has been reinforced by my revisiting archived colour film negatives with a scanner, from the distant past. All of a sudden one realises that one knows and comprehends very much more than comes to mind if one just sits in one's chair and trys to remember. The old images bring to mind much associated detail that one had thought forgotten.

In a similar way, listening to old recordings that one has made as an instrumentalist brings back the state of mind one was in when one recorded them. The point is that the information in the recall is lots more than the information in the prompting image or recording, but would not be accessible without that prompt.

Panops's template disaster

Panops (this blog) has been down for some time, with a corrupt template file caused by trying to post to it from a Mac Mini, and then from a linux box. By choosing a new template and republishing, the situation is recovered. Thanks to the helpful folk at Blogger who responded to the request for guidance after a search of the FAQ pages had not resolved the issue.