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  • Chapter 4 - Memory With and Without Remembering

  • David Gilden, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    The Psychology of Human Temporality
    Published online:
    24 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025, pp 52-68

  • Summary

    The elementary but necessary observation is made that memory is required to perceive events in time in relation to each other. The implication is that some type of forgetting must be involved when events fail to form a relation and are perceived as just being one thing happening after another. Memory and forgetting are first examined in terms of traditional psychological metaphor, that memories are contained within memory buffers. While Gestalt certainly involves memory, it does not seem to operate in terms of stored memories. A larger conception of memory is required, and this is provided by examining physical systems that embody memory without encoding or storing anything. Several examples of both deterministic and stochastic physical systems that embody memory are offered that broaden the scope of what can be a memory system.