Not exact matches
A traumatic
experience prolonged in unconscious
memories may be brought up to
conscious awareness and thus re-entertained without the shackle
of the past.
At any given moment we are the «little birth and little death» that we are doing or undergoing, including as it does
conscious and subconscious
memories of the past and future.7 There is no separate person locked within the body to whom the
experience belongs, no separate owner or possessor
of the flow
of experience.
To a large extent my
conscious decisions are made on the basis
of memories of past
conscious experiences and anticipations
of future ones.
It is therefore possible and even probable that they
experience sensations and
memory, that is to say,
conscious phenomena, but surely not in the sense
of human
experience which is connected with a concept
of one's own self.
From the Bergsonian perspective, Whitehead's claim that according to his «account
of the World
of Activity there is no need to postulate two essentially different types
of Active Entities... the purely material and [those] alive with various modes
of experiencing,» would entail the conclusion that the notion
of «the activity
of mere matter» devoid
of a «
conscious confrontation
of memory with possibility» is an abstract limit concept.
While it may not be written in our
conscious memories,
experiencing birth remains in our very cells, and is certainly within our subconscious - influencing much
of our behavior, reactions and perspectives later on in life.
Free recall is the ability to remember items from a list, while working
memory is a type
of short - term
memory that involves immediate
conscious experiences.
Tracking small movements
of the eyes can reveal information about what a person has
experienced, even without
conscious memory of it.
Rather than posting a verbal idea in our
conscious minds («I have to wait until the meeting on Friday»), experiential
memory makes use
of somatic markers, emotions or physical sensations that inform us about a situation based on past
experiences or feelings.
Understanding the brain's connections would begin to teach us how its flashes
of electricity add up to a fully
conscious experience, one in which our senses, intuition, reasoning and
memory interact to give a coherent view
of the world.
Often employing experimental methods and materials, she describes her work as «based on ideas from
memories and
experiences that are a congregation
of the
conscious and unconscious absorbed in daily life.»
In Night Train Cohn grapples with the daily realizations resulting from the
conscious re-workings
of memories,
experiences and imaginings.