Human Memory

To start with is to understand human memory is a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we reconstruct past experiences and, retain information usually for present purposes. Memory is one of the most important ways by which our histories define our current actions and experiences. Most notably, the human ability to conjure up long-gone but specific episodes of our lives is both familiar and puzzling, and is a key aspect of personal identity. Memory seems to be a source of knowledge. We remember experiences and events which happened and are not currently happening, so memory differs from perception, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining. Burge (2003)
It is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective. It is connected in not easily distinguishable ways with dreaming. Some memories are shaped by language, others by imagery. Much of our moral and social life depends on the peculiar ways in which we are dedicated to function in time. Memory goes wrong in a practical, transistory mundane and minor, or in dramatic and disastrous ways.
Although an understanding of memory is likely to be important in making sense of the continuity of the self, of the relation between mind and body, and of our experience of time, it has often been curiously neglected by philosophers. This entry 's primary focus is on that part of contemporary philosophical discussion of memory which is continuous with the development of theories in the cognitive and social sciences: attention to these interdisciplinary fields of memory studies is driving renewed work on the topic. Many problems about memory require us to cross philosophical traditions and sub disciplines, touching on phenomenology, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, social theory, and ethics at once. Burge (2003)
Objectives
To learn ways of remembering ideas, notes through mind boggling