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Day 330: ~ Identity ~

Jul 13, 2011 00:20

[It's late night, early morning when Roxas contemplates asking some questions to the late-night owls, the insomniacs, and the unrested population of Scorched. He has too much on his mind, but he knows stress has been building up from the recent rally to his overly frequent trips into the mist and the constant nightmares that come with it. It's ( Read more... )

raphael, !roxas, rex salazar, quorra, daniel trepkos, angel, riza hawkeye, aximili-esgarrouth-isthill, ulquiorra cifer

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[audio lecture] | Apologies for ten million edits trephaestos July 13 2011, 23:04:39 UTC

Memory is not equivalent to consciousness. It is the base from which we decide to act. Impulses are memory-linked; without memory to advise impulse selection, either the strongest impulse wins or there is inaction. One can say that memory is what keeps us from repeating ourselves (-one hopes. It doesn't work with everyone nor every time) but initial reactions may stay the same.

How that relates to identity… The nervous system is constantly changing and adapting as a result of new knowledge, which eventually all becomes memory. Thus experience and memory do physiologically change us. Remove all memories from a person at one stage in life; or remove them from the same person at another stage: would their default impulses-the structure of the brain's default mode network-be the same, or would the memories, however inaccessible, have altered them on a structural, subconscious, automatic level ( ... )

[Audio] LOL. This. Is. Amazing. key_destination July 16 2011, 18:40:08 UTC

[Sorry, Daniel, but Roxas barely caught or understood half of that...and you're reminding him an awful lot of his Superior.]

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...All I know about vacations is that they're days that you're supposed to do what you like and you don't have any real work or missions. Something like that.

[Audio] Yay! Very glad it didn't make you back slowly away... wouldn't have blamed you if it had ;-) trephaestos July 18 2011, 10:03:51 UTC

No wonder I've never liked them.

So then the thing to do is turn a vacation into its own work or mission.

[Audio] Lol, I'm just lucky that Roxas tends to not understand long speeches. xD key_destination July 19 2011, 02:36:07 UTC

You really like your work? Is it fun?

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