ABSTRACT
Whereas scientific and commonsense reasoning tend to take remembering as a more-or-less reliable outcome of brute mental skill, social psychologists have shown that remembering actually constitutes collective activity that is inherently (not merely incidentally) social. Lev Vygotsky, a founding father of social psychology, suggested over 80 years ago that humans control their brain from without by means of signs and tools that are inherently social.
