Listening to various conversations about philosophy, psychology, developmental psychology, a thought arose. It seems like a basic structural element that is left out in many of these narratives is the presence of memory. Take the laws of form, drawing the form out of the form is necessary for memory to arise. Then there are the tensions that are created between this draw and what is. And that tension leads to a proliferation of narratives about what is, was, could be, should be, may be, .... All the while, the presence of memory ( the drawing out of the form ) is often made invisible in the excitement of the tension that is created with memory.
Heard a talk by Harari creating a metric for consciousness as the capacity to suffer. That capacity arises out of the presence of memory.
Another aspect / substructure of memory is the perspective it allows on time - past, present, future, imagined, unimaginable, realized, realizable, ....
Strange how these thoughts and perspectives arise - memories of new / old / possible perspectives.
