The CDs contained interviews, cheats, programmers moves, game demos and one-of-a-kind Memory Card saves.
For a cool $10,000, mourning partners can invest in a one-of-a-kind "memory box" created by designer Mark Sturkenboom, which can play music and holds the deceased's wedding ring, cologne, and a "golden capsule" that can hold up to 21 grams of human ashes.
The company will slim down from more than 100,000 employees to the low eighty thousands once it completes a deal to spin off a portion of its memory business, which will specialize in a kind of memory designed to store the software widely used to run devices such as cameras and other electronics, later this year.
There is a kind of memory called a "flashbulb memory," which is particularly vivid, and forms when something surprising or particularly affecting occurs.
Although false memories are formally a kind of memory distortion, for proper adaptation it might be useful especially in situations of restricted cognitive control (as in a state of sleep deprivation) to rely on the gist of a memory, i.e. the broader semantical network associated with actually experienced events.
(The point of the restriction to philosophy is that clinical psychologists use the term quite differently, as the name for certain aspects of personality and 'self-conception'.) Whatever may be true of the kind of diachronic unity we just discussed, the kind of diachronic unity associated with personal identity is clearly a kind of memory, specifically, a kind of autobiographical memory.
If so, then a slow switch causes a kind of memory failure, since the knowledge initially stored in memory is not what is recalled.
"There is a suggestion of context that helps to spur a kind of memory, almost as if you were remembering a visit to Laurelton Hall from your childhood," Mr. Ruggiero said.
It rather remains present in altered form, modified from 'present' to 'past.' Every mental phenomenon triggers an 'original association' or 'proteraesthesis,' as he calls it later, a kind of memory which is not a full-fledged act of remembering, but rather a part of the act that keeps lively what was experienced a moment ago.
