july

Many people who who die and come back, from something like cardiac arrest, often report that they go through every experience, every memory that they’ve had in their entire life — not as a flash but as a sequence of everything that’s ever happened in their life and they remember it 

so I do think there’s something to memory even if you don’t remember all of it in the living life

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

And/also consider the memories retained by a butterfly 🦋 from a caterpillar 🐛 after metamorphosis . Complete metabolic breakdown and the information is retained AND remapped meaning from 2D (leaf world) to 3D (flight world). Modern theories are that something akin to the platonic forms of meaning are retained in the memory substrate. Optimised for future meaning interpretation of potentially quite different future “you”