Last time we rather abstractly defined it as the subjective experience of time. All this points us toward the importance of temporality in human being-in-the-world.Thompson (“A Matter of Identity”), is reduced to a succession of Nows – what is missing? What does he still have. One of the neuropsychological cases that we discussed was Jimmy G, The Lost Mariner in Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. We have been discussing different memory systems. of 1945? Whose time was the right time? Both are embedded in “world time,” but where “is” Jimmie? Or rather, when is he? CONSIDER CHAPTER 2 of Jimmy G, The Lost Mariner in Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Could we say that the doctor in “The Lost Mariner” traveled in time when he was talking to the Jimmy G. One night, in January 1979, she dreamed vividly, nostalgically, of her childhood in Ireland, and especially of the songs they.How does a deficit in past-having affect the possibility of future-having? Sackss The Lost Mariner, along with pieces by many of our favorite writers: Pauline Chen, Atul Gawande, Leah Kaminsky, Perri Klass, Robert Jay Lifton.So, “now” seems to require context of both the “just before” and the “forever before” to be meaninful, or perhaps we should say: for the achievement of coherence. Two forms of retention: the distant past and the immediate past.How to characterize the connection between continuity (coherence) and identity. Experiencing consciousness seems to need to retain trace of past experiences to build up for itself a sense of personhood.
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