ABSTRACT
Memory.—We have described inherent memory, or what some have called natural retentiveness, a condition depending upon the nature of nerve matter and upon direct experience. But we remember many things that are not matters of direct experience. We might stop and consider what would be our condition if we were limited to the kind of memory already described. We could remember only the things that came to us thru the senses. The neurokyme would flow into these simple neuron patterns that had been aroused by the original experience and we would have the feeling of familiarity and remember that experience. Thru these acquired associations and the great extension of the nueron patterns into the association centres, we get a condition which permits the nerve energy to run into this elaborate pattern, arousing the corresponding consciousness and arousing it with that greater ease which means the feeling of familiarity, the mark of memory. Memory thus becomes enormously elaborated and we speak of this elaborate form as associative or acquired memory, because it is dependent upon acquired association, association by similarity. This is also called logical association.
