Could memory be more fundamental to consciousness than we realize?
Victoria Trumbull revisits Augustine and Henri Bergson to explore memory as the continuity underlying mental life. She challenges the idea that remembering is simply retrieving stored information, examining how the past remains active in present experience and what this might reveal about the soul.
0:00 Rehabilitating the Philosophical Idea of the Soul 4:10 The Soul as Vital Activity Rather Than a Fixed Definition 6:53 Augustine, Bergson, and the Philosophy of Memory 11:33 Memory as a Foundation of Consciousness 14:10 How Memory Connects Past, Present, and Future 18:35 Memory Loss and the Limits of the Storage Model 22:52 Bergson’s Memory Images and Pure Memory.
Victoria Trumbull is a philosopher, researcher, and writer whose work concerns the nature of the mind and the relationship between time, memory, and the soul. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford and is the author of On the Memory of the Soul: Augustine and Bergson’s Metaphysics.
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