The greatest achievement of mind is memory. Through the use of memory we are able to learn and upon that resides the entirety of human history and everything we may become. But there is an inherent fascism in the way in which the mind learns. Because to the mind learning is all part-and-parcel of survival…
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Oh, For The Right Word
It is interesting that academics often create new words (usually from Greek roots in English academics) to explain a concept or train of thought. Nearly always these are an amalgam of two words that bring together two disciplines – it replaces the old hyphened words we used to find a great deal of in academic…
Memories Are Made Of This
As early as the fifth century BCE the Greeks were making the most of their memory by creating the technique of imagining a room, and assigning the things they have to remember to the objects in the room. The technique is successful for two reasons: the room is one you already know well and the…
Set In Stone
We always used to go places as a family and end up coming home with something to remind us of where we had been. Rarely was it something you could buy. When the motorbike and sidecar broke down in Hertfordshire we sat in a field and I strung a load of acorns together in necklaces….
Rock Running
Growing up in a coastal village in Cornwall the beaches obviously became a favourite playground. When the tide ebbs and ribbons of rock glisten with fresh sea water, seaweed, shell fish and rock pools the adventure of looking, searching, getting wet and clambering slowly transform over the year into a knowledge of not what lives…