Memory

In addition to courage, imagination and patience, a trial lawyer also needs MEMORY. An interesting question is: WHAT IS MEMORY in the structure of reality. French is probably the only language that contains the most precise ONTOLOGICAL question in elementary grammar: Qu’est-ce que c’est? The English believe that this question – literally speaking – is complete nonsense. But that’s not true.

In literal translation, the phrase means, “WHAT IS IT THAT IT IS”. Perhaps it is no coincidence that a nation that asks a fundamental question in this way has such outstanding achievements in all science, especially chemistry, biology, thermodynamics and non-comuutative geometry. So the question: WHAT IS MEMORY, that this is it – asked the French philosopher H. Bergson. In 1896, in his book “Matter and Memory”, he included at least two revolutionary thesis:
(a) “the psychological state extremely exceeds the state of the brain” (in other words, the physiology of the brain does not explain the whole psychology of the brain)
(b) “memory is the intersection between matter and spirit” (in a certain way, eliminates the problem of cartesian dualism).

Both of these thesis are broadly in line with today’s EMERGENCY THEORY. A. Damasio writes daringly about psychology in the light of emergency: “The strange order of things.”