1 Our experiences of nostalgia, of grief, our reflections on the way time has been passing faster as we have been growing older, our appreciation of the progress we’ve been making - all of these cases arguably include the experienced recollection of past events and are thus not only causally related to past experiences. That is, they would not be the kind of experiences they in fact are if memory did not figure in them. At least some of these aspects of experience are constitutively related to memory. 1 There are, broadly, two ways in which memory can constitutively figure in experience: (i) remembere (.)ġWhen we consider our experience from a broad perspective - taking into account our cognitive, emotional, and evaluative attitudes - it is evident that in many cases memory does not possess a merely causal role in relation to experiences that have temporal contents.
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