Memory incarnated…
in incarnated memories, in data become programs, therein lies our primary cognitive base… That in the history of every culture, there is no work more widespread than copying, from the mural painters of Lascaux, the Assyrian scribes, the monks of the middle ages, up to Jean-Jacques transcriber of music, so reflect before laughing at Bouvard and Pecuchet who having arrived at the end of all knowledge pronounce the ultimate virtue of copying.. Serres.