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Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist
Evan Nesterakbehavioralscientist.orgIntelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.
Vincent Deary • How We Are
When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Philosophers / Theorists on Memory & Time
Henri Bergson – Matter and Memory; distinguishes between mechanical recall and lived, fluid memory; emphasizes duration (la durée).
Maurice Halbwachs – Introduced the concept of collective memory (how memory is socially framed and maintained).
Paul Ricoeur – Memory, History, Forgetting; examines memory’s
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Adam recalls something he learned in graduate school: memory is always a collaboration in progress.