McCarroll Christopher Jude
Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 30;11:585352. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585352. eCollection 2020.
What is the relation between episodic memory and episodic (or experiential) imagination? According to the causal theory of memory, memory differs from imagination because remembering entails the existence of a continuous causal connection between one's original experience of an event and one's subsequent memory, a connection that is maintained by a memory trace. The simulation theory rejects this conception of memory, arguing against the necessity of a memory trace for successful remembering. I show that the simulation theory faces two serious problems, which are better explained by appealing to a causal connection maintained by a memory trace. Remembering the personal past is not the same as imagining.
情景记忆与情景（或体验性）想象之间的关系是什么？根据记忆的因果理论，记忆与想象不同，因为记忆需要在一个人对事件的原始体验和其随后的记忆之间存在连续的因果联系，这种联系由记忆痕迹维持。模拟理论拒绝这种记忆概念，反对成功记忆需要记忆痕迹的观点。我表明模拟理论面临两个严重问题，而通过诉诸由记忆痕迹维持的因果联系能更好地解释这些问题。回忆个人过去与想象并不相同。
