, Stuart discusses how future generations of humans might benefit from the marriage of somatic and new tech memories. For instance, he mentions how humans are “offloading semantic and prospective information onto external memory, and we are using external memory to augment episodic internal memory.” What this means is that the human brain is using technology to clear out memory for more important tasks such as telephone numbers and addresses stored on our mobile devices.
However, studies in cognitive neuroscience have shown that one of our cerebral networks, the default network, vital for our mental well-being, is in fact activated when we turn our thoughts inwards and give in to daydreams, to introspection, none of which is helped by our intensive reliance on digital memory aids. Finally, memorizing songs, poems and so on nourishes sharing and solidarity, reinforces social links, and improves the quality of living with others.
Where one school of thought views human memory in terms of an anthropomorphized computer storage, Eustache views human memory as a necessary network of experiential processes through which we must pass in order to sort out meaning through contemplation instead of hyper-saturation.
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