Visualizing the Memory: History and Storytelling as SelfPreservation Lena Zlock March 4th, 2014 Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0OReLx_VJc Figure 1: Overview of the Memory Diagram This is experimental philosophy at best: an imperfect, fearless science at worst. This is a diagram of the memory in two parts: Current Memory and Historical Memory (or Historical imagination). Current Memory refers to what you are experiencing right now on the conscious level reading this text, tapping your foot, absorbing the scent of cold coffee, peering at your table lamp. Current Memory is everything you have ever known, including things you cannot recall to the fore of consciousness at this very moment. It stretches all the way to the back of your conscious existence, to your earliest childhood memories, or as far ago as you can remember. If you made a timeline of everything you could remember, the first data on that timeline would be the “back” of your memory. Historical Memory is what you learned has happened. The difference between Current and Historical Memory is that Current Memory is something you can naturally
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Visualizing the Memory: History and Storytelling as Self-Preservation
Lena ZlockMarch 4th, 2014Watch the video here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0OReLx_VJc
Figure 1: Overview of the Memory Diagram
This is experimental philosophy at best: an imperfect, fearless science at worst. This is
a diagram of the memory in two parts: Current Memory and Historical Memory (or
Historical imagination). Current Memory refers to what you are experiencing right now on
the conscious level- reading this text, tapping your foot, absorbing the scent of cold coffee,
peering at your table lamp. Current Memory is everything you have ever known, including
things you cannot recall to the fore of consciousness at this very moment. It stretches all the
way to the back of your conscious existence, to your earliest childhood memories, or as far
ago as you can remember. If you made a timeline of everything you could remember, the
first data on that timeline would be the “back” of your memory.
Historical Memory is what you learned has happened. The difference between
Current and Historical Memory is that Current Memory is something you can naturally