Memory involves the whole body. It’s how the self defies amnesia | Psyche Ideas
Curated from: psyche.co
Ideas, facts & insights covering these topics:
3 ideas
·1.5K reads
1
Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
Forming New Memories
Our consciousness is deeply connected to our thinking and memory, and self-remembrance is an automatic feature of our brain.
People who have survived accidents or illness which limit their brain functioning, making them unable to form any new memory, question the presumption we have of our minds being our sole repository of identity.
86
689 reads
Amnesia: The Forgotten Life
People who are unable to form new memories have to adjust to a stark reality of losing their pre-amnesia lives. To live without the means to form any ‘autobiographical’ memory, makes the patients unable to ground their sense of identity, or even orient themselves to maintain a timeline of their existence in their minds.
The only guiding light in the dark is the present moment and the action that they are doing with their entire bodies.
82
401 reads
The Holistic Nature Of Personhood
The identity of ourselves isn’t just limited to the mind, and is in fact the property of the entire body.
A study in how poems take formation provides an insight on Rilkean memory, which encompasses the entire being, and is the complete existential response to the world, unlike the conscious thinking response of the mind. The behavioural disposition and enduring mood arise when the conscious, narrative memory is gone.
81
416 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
Rachel P.'s ideas are part of this journey:
Learn more about health with this collection
How to overcome unwanted thoughts
How to manage intrusive thoughts
How to change your attitude towards intrusive thoughts
Related collections
Similar ideas
5 ideas
Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories
nationalgeographic.com
4 ideas
2 ideas
Understanding the Basis of Superior Memory
discovermagazine.com
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates