Can We Trust What We Remember? | The Memory of Memory
From Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · 43:56
Show by Pioneers of Human Behaviour
Can we trust what we remember?Content note: includes a brief, plainly told account of a rape and the wrongful conviction that followed (the case of Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton), and an ancient story of deaths in a building's collapse.In one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates asks a young mathematician to imagine a block of wax inside every mind. Tonight's story follows memory as it turns round to look at itself: the pictures it has drawn of itself, the arts invented to help it, and the long question of how far it can trust its own sense of being sure.We visit a banquet hall in Thessaly and a quiet Roman building of places, Matteo Ricci in Nanchang and Zhu Xi's tidy desk, a Vedic classroom where the words are braided, and a Luba reader moving a fingertip across a beaded board.Then memory searches itself: Augustine's lamp and the name that won't come, children who stay hopeful about what they'll recall, a witness whose certainty grew between the line-up and the trial, couples who share their remembering, and a cup of tea at Combray.Let the images fade from their places tonight. The places will keep.This podcast edition contains the narration on its own, with no background music.Sleep Stories from the PioneersStories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.Explore The Idea of Ideas series:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd5WzOPdClFYListen to more Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZkExplore Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/sleep-stories/Support the project:https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviourThis episode includes AI-generated content.
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