Most of us have put ourselves into a dangerous situation at some point in life--imbibed too much, one-eyed it home, woken up without recollection--and under different circumstances our lives could have been upended.
Not yet born at the time of the attack, they represent the ultimate audience for any memorial: those without personal recollection to whom the past must be transmitted.
And without that recollection, they still felt hungry, even when their stomachs were full.
As Jake Lonergan (Craig) wakes up in a strange western town without any recollection of how he got there, he immediately finds trouble in Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Ford).
Furthermore, people can develop phobias without any recollection of a previous exposure to the feared event (Murray and Foote 1979; Olsson et al. 2007; Olsson and Phelps 2007; Rachman 1977).
I didn't feel that I could write about Peter without her recollections and insights, and so I dropped the matter, only revisiting it at this blog when I discovered that there had already been a significant amount of discussion online, by others who knew him, about what might have occurred.
Some of me kissing girls, sometimes, it seems, despite my recollection, without them fully enjoying it.
I can't look anywhere in New York without a poignant recollection.
The following week, accompanied by the same young woman, I came across him again and he repeated the entire charade, without any apparent recollection of our previous encounter.
"The only thing we can do is accumulate pieces of evidence and see how close we can get to the idea of autobiographical memory or episodic memory without showing conscious recollection".
