The way that my daughter’s head is shaped has been on my mind since Monday, when a team […]
Category Archive: The Persistence of Memory: The Consciousness & Perception Issue
“All solved thanks to Dr. Rudolph Czolgosz, newly of the office building at 721 Plum Street. Dr. Czolgosz is the inventor of a machine called The Extractor, which, using the latest scientific advances, is able to remove unpleasant memories permanently from a person’s mind, leaving him happy, carefree, and blissfully unaware of his past troubles.”
He came out of the room and approached the nurse like a squirrel. One of the nurses, any of […]
In May, a calm sweeps across south India. Heat slows us down and the wind is our mother, […]
He wakes up—the shower, the shave, the breakfast listening to the news on the radio—, leaves his downtown […]
The memory unfolds the same way every time. My mother is standing on top of her hospital bed. […]
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget. – Unknown Since the 2000s, researchers have been studying […]
There was a time my brain acted like an effective sponge. From the moment I fell in love […]
To make sense of what’s on my mind, I’ll start with the simple fact that the Universe is […]
A song can bring back a memory so vivid and poignant that it can break your heart. […]
