The Definition Of Memory In The Lost Mariner By Oliver Sacks

What associations arise in our head when we talk about memory? First of all, this is the memory of generations, historical and cultural memory. These concepts correlate with the development of society, with the greatest values and events within the whole world, the state or some individual nations. And if you just take a person, what is a memory for a person in his daily life? In my opinion, this is the basis for the formation of a person as a person. The existing experience and knowledge, which are stored in our memory, are the basis for our future development. Human memory is daily accumulated life experience, which allows it to grow and develop in all directions of life - mental, spiritual, moral. The paradox is that we use memory

From time when he was young, but in reality, he wasn’t really young anymore. He couldn’t recognize his family and himself (in a mirror) as in his mind they were young, but in fact they were more than 40. Every day he re-acquainted with people with whom he could communicate for a long time. He learned about the current progress and scientists’ success in different fields, however, he forgot about it in a short time. His mind lived in the past while he was already in real time. Yes, he was a man of age, but with the consciousness of a twenty-year-old guy, but that did not exclude the fact that he was quite an interesting person. He told stories from his life, he could play short games. He did not need a care as a baby as his memory kept all the necessary basic knowledges of a person, thanks to which he could feel comfortable in the situation in which he found himself. In some ways, he could be a part of usual social life as he had basic knowledges in his memory, but only until he remembers who you are. There was no future for him. Only the past of twenty years ago or a short moment in the present. He remained at the level of a twenty-year-old