ABSTRACT
Memory must have a subject/agent at the centre of the memory to seem like memory. A real memory comes as items already unified around a subject. In order for the memory to be "as experienced by a subject" it has to be "as unified by a subject at the time of experiencing" and so it must include a subject. Memories of an absent object in fact apprehend the object as having been experienced in an act of knowledge by a knowing subject. The idea that the recognition is based only on the similarity of the Self remembered with the current Self does not seem adequate to explain this certainty, and so should not be accepted unless no better explanation can be found. The Self has been constantly monitoring the mind, and so knows that it has not acquired a new mind. The Self also knows that it has existed continuously.
