Memory

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Offspring

Commemorative RevisionAnniversary Rewriter, Anamnestes palimpsestusby symbiosisThe Festival CalendarRing of Feasts, Fastocyclus communisby colonizationSimultaneous RememberingTide of Recall, Synmnemon calendarisby colonization

Food web

• feeds the output of Ritual → its intake
  Ritual gives a time that comes back and passages marked in public; Memory feeds on what is repeated, strongly felt or given meaning. Ritual's product is Memory's best food.
• pollinated its dispersal → the intake of Ritual
  Memory spreads into stories, archives, monuments and rites, and Ritual needs the memory of what was done before. Memory has already pollinated Ritual.
• homology its decay resembles the dispersal of Ritual
  Ritual lives on in gestures whose reasons are forgotten; Memory's other half is forgetting. The form outlives what it remembered.
• friction its boundary rubs against the kernel of Ritual
  Ritual repeats actions in a fixed form; Memory says a trace that never altered would be an archive, not a memory. One lives by not changing, the other by changing.
• feeds the output of Ritual → its intake
  Ritual gives a time that comes back; Memory feeds on what is repeated and given meaning. Each return of the rite is a recall.
• feeds its output → the intake of Equinox
  Memory gives the stories a group tells about itself; Equinox feeds on someone watching the horizon, and only a group that remembers keeps watching.

Kin

same kind in Roget Apophenia, Dream, Faith, Placebo, Presence, Prophecy, Knowing Trust, Afterlistening, Commemorative Revision, Simultaneous Remembering, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in Wilkins Apophenia, Dream, Presence, Afterlistening, Simultaneous Remembering

same kind in WordNet Apophenia, Dream, Faith, Qualia, Silence, Volition, Afterlistening, Simultaneous Remembering, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in Llull Echolalia, Nostalgia, Placebo, Presence, Prophecy, Solitude, Volition, Knowing Trust, Self-Fulfilling Alarm, Tongue Horizon, Witnessed Relief, Witnessed Relief (Mycelia), Commemorative Revision, The Shared Cell, Simultaneous Remembering, Hesychology

same phylum Entelechy, Music, Nostalgia, Prophecy, Ritual, Wind, Tongue Horizon, Afterlistening

same dominant organ Entropy, Innocence

Genome

• trace
• recall also in Commemorative Revision, Simultaneous Remembering
• forgetting also in Dream
• reconstruction
• identity

Echoes

• the forgetting curve
• a family story that changes each time it is told
• a war memorial
• a smell that brings back a childhood room