We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away.
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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