Havana Cafe Sessions Podcast

Remember your six year old self? Your thirteen year old self? Your twenty year old self? Are you the same person as you were then?  Memory provides an important sense of continuity to our lives.  But do our memories make us who we are?   In this episode, Clay and Sarah delve deep into the land of memory to discuss: * Amnesia and what is reality like when you've forgotten your past (see this great article by Daniel Levitin, 'Amnesia & the Self that Remains when Memory is Lost') * Different kinds of memory (Semantic, Procedural, Episodic) * Are we the same person through time? * High school reunions - when the person people 'remember' collides with the person you are now * The impact of shared memories - family memories & communal memories * Questions of memory in pop culture - the film Momento & the TV series Black Mirror * What makes you You? Memories? Personality? Habits? Deeper consciousness?   What is memory for anyway?  A simple answer would be -- so we can learn from our past.  So we can resp