Using foundations laid by neuroscience, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY opens an exploration into the brain that perceives and the mind that remembers and reacts to the past. It starts with a simple question: where do the images we experience in nightly dreams come from? Dreams are memories and memories are consciousness. But conundrums abound in this answer which continues to plague philosophers and scientists since Aristotle came up with the idea of a soul or mind. What in the past explains the “un-experienced” in memories? Flying unaided over treetops; being chased by eight-legged kittens; meandering through a jasmine scented field of purple flowers? Never experienced, never consciously remembered, yet a dream?
From visual perception, to the electro-chemical factory of neurons; from neurotransmitters and millisecond clocks; from dreams to déjà vu experiences: an exploration into the neuroscience of the brain and the inexplicable idea of a self- emerging from opposing forces, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY provides an empirical bridge between science and the conundrum of consciousness.
If you have read books at the edge of science, such as Eben Alexander's PROOF OF HEAVEN at the edge of the knowable such as Paul von Ward's WE'VE NEVER BEEN ALONE, then A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY will be of interest to you.
