St Augustine’s frequent use of the word memory is interesting. In fact, at some point, I’d like to write an essay reflecting this.

Be sure to share the essay if you write it.

I apologize--I must have missed the notification of a new post and am just now seeing this. Yes, memory is a dominant theme in Confessions. It will occupy all of book ten. Even very recent research on the role of memory in the National Institute of Health references back to Augustine's groundbreaking reflections on the subject. The attachments are rather technical, but they do suggest Augustine's ongoing influence even in the sciences.

Our own reflections on the role of memory can likewise serve as a powerful tool for introspection.

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Reconstructing the past and anticipating the future, i.e., the ability of travelling in mental time, is thought to be at the heart of consciousness and, by the same token, at the center of human cognition. This extraordinary mental activity is possible thanks to the ability of being aware of 'subjec …

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Over the last half century, neuropsychologists, cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists interested in human memory have accumulated evidence showing that there is not one general memory function but a variety of memory systems deserving distinct (but for an organism, complementary) fun …