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     It is important to recognize that especially in our
highly instrumented, technologically elaborate society, the
experience of preverbal memory is swamped, suffocated and
almost extinguished by the chaos and cacophony, by the
complexity and richness of the post-verbal memory that
agitates and dominates ones existence.  The mental and
emotional (spiritual) processes by which we might extricate
ourselves from the alien extraneous verbal onslaught
constitute an issue worthy of separate consideration; - and
beyond that, whether such extrication is necessary,
desirable or even possible.

     All "knowing how" is contemporaneous, is of the
present.  All "knowing that" is preterite and of the past.
A young person who is learning, acquires data.  An old
person who is learning, sifts data, evaluates it, and
inevitably will discard some of the knowledge that he
acquired in the past.
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Copyright 2008, Ernst Jochen Meyer
