The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
Memory narrativises itself.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
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