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           Memory, Orientation and Anticipation

     My relationship to the present is paradoxical in that
I can neither apprehend it nor can I escape it.  The
product of all perception is preterite, is past.  The
content of all anticipation is future.  The past is
inaccessible; the future is inescapable.  It is always
imminent; it is always immediate.

     Orientation is subject to invarying and continuous
feedback.  As the action proceeds, it leads the individual
into new areas, new situations, creates new issues that
impress themselves on his memory and which when he
subsequently retrieves them serve to control further
action.

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Copyright 2008, Ernst Jochen Meyer
