Extended: On Memory (in Relation to Movement) and Time
What is the process behind the direction of your will? How are thoughts born? Where does memory fit in it? What does it have to do with time?
This extends my Remarks on… the involucrum of memory, freedom of choice, and time, with pointed though elongated (instead of short) elucidations structured as follows:
Factor First…
: what you need to look into if you want to understand it
Solves Through…
: a direction or solution (you can follow through)
Directives…
: what that means for you: How does it help you? How do you deal with it? And what can you do about it?
You can access this Extended here:
Factor First…
Let’s first extricate the meanings of the statement I previously made on cell memory:
It is imperative to "become" it, as in, to "experience" from the perspective point of the cell itself. [ . . . ] It is the only way to see clearly, from the completely different view that accompanies the cell; that gives us a chance to participate together with its movements, and "see," the way a cell "sees"—its functions, what it has to do in order to "survive."
What does experiencing “from the perspective point of the cell itself” have to do with memory?
The movement. That of what is being “brought forth” and through, into these containers. A variety of measure points which become what we inadvertently gain access to and refer to as memory. There is “memory” to be held within these movements, which are not yet part of these containers; at least, not part of the observable scale we’re accustomed to refer to and measure from. Nonetheless, we still “remember from it.” (That’s what I mean when I say "participate together with its movements.")
Memory in relation to movement
There is an initial agglomeration that takes place before it becomes what we deem a thought to be. This agglomeration is of…
Physical particles, constituent elements that join together and, in unison, become the "matter" that is used to impulse that "thought," more correctly said, the conjunction of its contents, those grouped-up particles in themselves.
When the movement starts, time starts; more correctly said, chronology related to those constituent elements starts; a timeline for those, if you will.
That is but one of the trillions of timelines that, in the same way, come to adjoin or run in parallel with each other.
And a combination of those makes up for what we experience as the passage of time and every single event (those constituent elements that in the event of encountering each other contribute to the pace, solidity, and malleability of things around them) contained in it, which comes with it—the life we get to experience around them and with them; people, locations, circumstances.
Memory is a movement toward [instead of backward, as common sense implies] these events, movements that already took place because of their initial configuration. Locating these events, or the memory of them for that matter, is a matter of locating their trajectory, or at least, the cues that lead to them.
That is to say that not every single piece of "memory" resides inside the body, within its cells. That is certainly to say that, there is a "movement" of cells, and within the cells, that needs to take place in order to engage with those memories, events that took place, including outside the bounds of the body's cells.
These are physical constituent elements that might or might not encounter (i.e. impact) the cells of your body; those of which, in the event of impact, become part of its memory-body, what the body “remembers” and knows how to process because it repeatedly received from those. Nevertheless, they’re accessible to you right now, if within the proximity or scope of what’s being brought and sustained within the cell or group of cells.
Solves Through…
The relationship of memory and time
There is a space you pull memory from; something you remember [when there is movement toward it]. A memory of “another [moment in] time”—something you experienced just now or some time ago.
And that’s how we know (at least have the sensation of, because we're using our senses to do so) that memory is intimately related to time. But that is so because it is tied to the way we perceive and experience things [as we're doing it] through our bodies.
But if you were to "separate" yourself from the body in such a way that you’d make yourself at home, residing inside the body, knowing that you are different than the body; that even though inside the body, you are not it, then you could start to observe its movements.
And once you “set yourself” in this way, more so, recognize the nature of your existence inside the body, then you can start "seeing" through different eyes, not with the aid of the visual cortex, but with the aid of the constituent elements comprising that pool of particles within which you reside in/with, and inside the body—literally you.
This sets up the way for you to investigate the movements of the body, and what's all that about memory and time.
That's when you start seeing, or, more accurately, you start realizing that memory accompanies you, follows you, as well as it accompanies the body, follows the body. And recognizing the difference—which one set of memory belongs to what—is just the beginning.
What comes next is the ability to undertake the role of the “monitoring one,” investigating the causes of movements inside the body, what "causes" memory. And that is more so to do with time than one would expect or even suspect.
Time is what brings it, and not the other way around. Meaning, there is an impulsing motion that thrusts through and brings within its space, what we understand as time. And within this context, time within these spaces is the content, the contents which will be or are then just about to be played out into a sequence; a sequential movement of spaces of time being brought about: memory.
Your body’s memory-body
There’s memory in your body. Every single cell in your body holds the memory of how to initiate a process or processes related to the functions it performs.
Every single cell in your body also “learns” to process certain kinds of impact which were imparted to them by certain repetitive patterns (e.g., same foods, same or similar environments, people, and “moods”) and, because of that, have become “memory” to them.
Every time a similar impact impacts the body, it is rapidly absorbed into a selected group of cells or entire organs which “remember” how to process it. That same kind of impact aggregates to that group of cells and becomes ingrained within it into a “soup” of constituent elements that forms [initially] or reinforces [by adding more of the same] what I call the memory-body of the body.
Your relationship to memory
Now, what happens to you, both in relation to those “memory” events being processed by the body—which are taking place without your having any say in it (that is, if you’re not directly aware and “inputting intention” onto those)—and in those moments when you are deliberately engaging with the process of remembering (what we refer to as memory), are very distinctive events, which can, but do not necessarily need to “encounter” each other.
That is to say that there is “memory” for the body, and there is “memory” you engage with, which are different events altogether; including what’s being triggered and “pulled” into the scope of attention.
Directives…
That is telling you something important about the direction of your will: that, if exercised with attention, freedom of will—your “willing” toward something you decidedly choose—is giving you freedom of choice. And with it, freedom of movement. Coming full circle into what was initiated, by you; because you’ve done it conscientiously, attentively enough that you could repeat the process if you decide to.
Attentive volition is the name of it.
Movement in relation to thought
What you're aiming at, at the moment you’re doing so, becomes potential content for that soup of memory to aggregate or not within your body’s cells; including how that “movement” is about to direct the behavior of your body’s actions when interacting with others, starting with the “thoughts” that sprout out of it, a process we don’t necessarily pay attention to. We’re oblivious to the fact that this is the process that is making them arise in the first place, by which (i.e., how) “thoughts” are born within the body.
And depending on the level of your awareness when you’re doing the aiming, the result is modified. The higher your awareness, the clearer you can maneuver the intent that is to drive it.
What you engage with then becomes “memory” right after that movement initiates. You can feed it through the body then, that impulsing movement. And through the body, interact, through that movement, with the world.
Thought in relation to time
The focus of your attention is, necessarily, directing the pathways of your timeline—the foundation in which your movements are constructed through “time,” i.e., the contents that come with it.
That said, what you “think,” or, as I elucidated above, the kind of movement initiated by what you are constantly (aware or unaware of it) aiming at, is determining the quality of life you are having, as in, receiving as an output of it.
Starting by the quality of your cells’s health, extending into the convergence of events that initiate that timeline pathway through your body’s actions, internally, and subsequently, the interactions with others through different or repetitive impacts due to different or similar places, locations, and environments.