Amorella here among the mountains not above them. Orndorff can’t remember whether this was taken while flying into La Paz, Bolivia or flying from Cuzco to Lima, Peru. What he does remember is the ‘peak’ of one of the mountains appears right below the plane as this is a straight-on shot; the plane is either a small two engine jet, or in the case of Cuzco an ancient slowly lumbering and passenger full DC-3.
Memory is a strange phenomenon. Orndorff shot to Wikipedia and found this:
“Declarative memory requires conscious recall, in that some conscious process must call back the information. It is sometimes called explicit memory, since it consists of information that is explicitly stored and retrieved.
Declarative memory can be further sub-divided into semantic memory, which concerns facts taken independent of context; and episodic memory, which concerns information specific to a particular context, such as a time and place. Semantic memory allows the encoding of abstract knowledge about the world, such as "Paris is the capital of France". Episodic memory, on the other hand, is used for more personal memories, such as the sensations, emotions, and personal associations of a particular place or time. Autobiographical memory - memory for particular events within one's own life - is generally viewed as either equivalent to, or a subset of, episodic memory. . .
In contrast, procedural memory (or implicit memory) is not based on the conscious recall of information, but on implicit learning.”
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The memory involved here through this photograph is related to flying through two geographic regions in the same mountains so it is episodic memory accessed from two previous separate experiences. Memory has to involve time and space. How can the Dead access memory without a distortion from either time and space or no time and no space. Both consciousness and unconsciousness would seem to have to reflect the memory of time and space because without time or space one would not appear to exist.
Yet in that one particular shaman-like dance experience I (rho) did not exist and existed both at once, that is my mind accepted the apparent contradiction as fact. Why is the human mind built to have the ability to accept an apparent impossible juxtaposition of mind as not only possible but to accept it as fact? To a lesser extent one in an hypnotic trance can readily demonstrate this phenomenon. The human mind has the natural ability to visualize and conceptualize something that cannot and does not exist. Anyone with any sense of reasoning and self-honesty understands and knows this as a fact of life.
You are wondering where this memory business is going so I will tell you. In book four, The Rebellion, future memory is written as a fact.
How can this be? What is the future end as far as the Dead are concerned? What are the parameters, the chess board if you will? What are the rules of physics as far as the Dead are concerned? How does this remain plausible in the story, that is the most important aspect as far as I (rho) can see presently? >
As you just skimmed through several articles on quantum mechanics via Wikipedia you came upon this, thinking that a sort of ‘string’ exists within the human species. In bio-physics this would be the principle of the DNA code which contains code of the living as well as the dead. However, if the soul, heart, and mind are also connected to the DNA code then there is a region or boundary that is light-like and this is within the theory of the physics of thought and thus of memory for thought reference [information only]. This is an example:
“The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories which states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region — preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. . .
In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies.” – Wikipedia
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I (rho) think something can be worked out in the stringing of theory and fiction. We have down it with time travel stories, only in this one, being Dead there is no matter or energy involved. Again, according to Wikipedia:
“Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate).”
I, Amorella, can easily incorporate the ‘trance-physics’ already in the Merlyn books with some of what you have found in Wikipedia.
I forgot about trance-physics.
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