Tag: consciousness

  • What happens to memory when the body stops? This is the question I keep returning to. The research on dreams and memory consolidation is striking – the sleeping mind is busy reorganising, strengthening, integrating. Today’s experiences are replayed and mixed with older memories, and something like creativity emerges from the…

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  • I have been thinking about a question that has no answer, and that is exactly why I cannot stop asking it. The question is this: if autobiographical memories define the self — if they are, as one researcher put it, ‘the content of the self’ — then what would exist…

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