Concept tag
#memory
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In Aymara the past lies in front of us. Is that only a way of speaking, or a truer idea of time?
In Aymara, the word nayra means eye, and front, and also the past. The past is ahead of you, because you can see it. What is coming is qhipa, behind, at your back, because nobody can see it. My grandmother pointed forward…
Started by Lucía Mamani3 replies -
Every cell in my body is replaced every seven years, so am I even the same person?
At Sunday lunch my uncle reminded me that I borrowed 20,000 shillings from him when I was fifteen. I said, as a joke, that every cell in my body has been replaced since then, so the boy who borrowed it is gone…
Started by Baraka Mwakyusa4 replies -
Does general anaesthesia remove experience, or only our memory of it?
I work in hospital administration in Cairo, not medicine, but over the years I've heard a great many patients describe going under and coming back. Most say the same thing: one moment they were counting backwards, the next they were in recovery.…
Started by Omar Ragab5 replies -
Does general anaesthesia switch experience off, or only the memory of it?
Last month, a patient I was interpreting for asked before surgery whether she would "be there" during the operation and simply forget it, or whether she would not be there at all. I passed on the reassuring answer she was given. Afterwards…
Started by Tsion Bekele6 replies -
Reading group: Augustine’s Confessions Book X, the books of memory, in Chadwick’s translation
There are already threads here on Book XI (time) and Book IV (the death of a friend), so I'd like to propose Book X, which sits between them and which I think is the most philosophical book of the Confessions. Having told…
Started by Aoife Kilbride5 replies -
Sincere and mistaken: what the memory research means for how we listen to victims
I have spent eight years covering the peace process in Colombia, which has meant listening to hundreds of people describe the worst days of their lives. Something has troubled me for a long time, and I'd like to think it through with…
Started by Andrés Zuluaga5 replies -
Memory preserves knowledge but never produces it: the Indian schools were right to exclude it
For forty years of reading Śaṅkara I have accepted, almost without noticing, a rule that most of the classical Indian schools share: memory is not a pramāṇa, not a means of valid knowledge in its own right. The Nyāya divide cognition into…
Started by Arjun Iyer5 replies -
“I know what I saw”: what is a witness actually claiming?
I cover courts and human rights in Karachi. The sentence I hear most often in witness boxes is "I know what I saw." It's said with total conviction, often by people who are mistaken. Psychologists have shown how fragile this is. Elizabeth…
Started by Sana Rizvi6 replies