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Monday
Sep052011

« An Old Fragment Recovered »

Here's an old fragment of a thought I recently recovered while backing up some mind-files:

I remember the fact of a thought, but not the content of it.  I remember wanting not to forget the thought.  And for a while I remembered it except that while I remembered it, it (the thought) had no “it” left content-wise… 

How is this done?  An episodic memory of an episode that has no narrative?

And my memory of “it” somehow distinguishes this “it” from any other “it” although this "it" has no narrative to distinguish it with…  Or am I just remembering the situational context in which the thought had originally emerged?  Has the contextual “it-ness” replaced the thought itself?   And am I now just relying on this contextual "it-ness" as a way of remembering an otherwise informationally-empty thought?

Kinda like remembering the fact of a kiss but not the person you kissed...

Perhaps, I should just delete this memory file, and make room for consciousness to kiss itself anew.