John Sutton, 'Spongy Brains and
Material Memories',
for Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the
World: embodiment and environment in
early modern England, eds Mary Floyd-Wilson
& Garrett Sullivan, to
be published by Palgrave Macmillan
NEW: Draft version in Word of
this paper 'Spongy
Brains and Material Memories'
N.B. This is a draft only and is not identical to the version to be
published.
Outline
1. Introduction:
openness, influence, and scaffolding
2. Spongy
Brains and Humoral Bodies
3. Early
Modern Cognitive Technologies
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3.1 The
recording sponge
3.2 Clothes and other material memories
3.3 The arts of memory
4. Conclusion and
Challenges
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Last updated 12 March 2006.