Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Memory

Words and events fade in an instant. What isn’t remembered is doomed to be repeated. Who knows how long this exchange has been going on, or will continue to go on, without memory.

4 comments:

ecelliam said...

Dude; that says most of it, but not all.

Good post.and thanks.

Bill Robertson said...

Yeah, I know ..

I thought it was a humorous example of a failure to transfer.

Thanks for the reminder ..

Jennifer Dabbs said...

I don't think I'm familiar with the concept of familiarity... I suppose it has something to do with remembering the gist of what was said? Help me out.

Bill Robertson said...

Hi Jennifer ~ I’m afraid I mis-titled this. It’s really about a memory deficit commonly associated with Alzheimer’s. Specifically, the inability to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory