We pray: ... “Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom.” The Frightful Path of Judas Fr. Stephen 4.17.2025

most of the memory a system uses isn’t its own. ... The same is true of humans. Language, culture, norms, rituals, documents—all of these constitute a collective memory space we navigate constantly. Our own memory is just one small node in a vast network of external scaffolding—books, browsers, friends, feeds. ... Shared memory is the terrain;... See more

Knowing where to find the information you need is more important than memorizing it. There are certain pieces of information we keep in our heads all the time, because we use that information frequently and need to recall it at a moment’s notice. Other pieces of information, however, are either difficult to remember, obscure, or are only needed... See more

intelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time. Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is. ... What remains expensive—financially,... See more

Writing’s extension of consciousness has a direct effect on identity. As philosopher Robert Spaemann argued in Persons: The Difference Between ‘Someone’ and ‘Something,’ “the constitution of personal identity is inseparable from the process of self-externalizing.” This process, in his view, took place in recollection rather than direct experience.... See more

As a matter of fact, to translate this into the language we use, which is a faculty psychology language – the two key faculties which stand between the objective and the subjective are memory and imagination. These are terms that go back again, as we mentioned before, to Leo the Thirteenth and nineteenth century. This was his promotion of Thomas... See more

At a certain point, all memory is fiction. What we retain of the past is selective—our brain typically glosses over the finer details—even the substance of it is subject to change. Our past, much like our present and future, is fluid, constantly running, and not even Memory can step in that same river twice. The memoir, however, attempts to fix... See more

the account given of the oracle of Trophonios by the ancient historian Pausanias. Those who sought the oracle’s wisdom underwent an elaborate ritual, which included drinking from two fountains: one bearing the Water of Lethe and the other bearing the Water of Mnemosyne.2 The goddess Mnemosyne was the goddess of memory and, not incidentally, the... See more

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows. Mother tongue 2.3.2025 Aeon Video