ABSTRACT
Because I believe that evidence coming from studies of memory, especially those in neuroscience, has been arrived at by exploring the actual seat of memory, the brain—that is to say, it has been obtained by direct means and not by abstract reasoning—I have chosen to base my observations on it. That is not to say that neuroscience alone is sufficient to give us a complete picture. But it is the foundation, and that is where we can start. As we shall see, literature can provide additional information from a different vantage point. Neuroscience can show us the architecture of neuronal assemblies, the areas of the brain that are connected and communicate, how the coded information reaches the higher centers in the brain, and how they respond to the afferent signals with feedback to create recognition. These studies can, in other words, reveal the workings of memory and the locations where certain events occur inside the brain. What literature can invoke is the time and space of the events that the coded information represents and which, following the directions given, have to be projected into the world.
