#partitionary

[neontinsstamps]

♡ Partitionary and Blurian stamps ♡

"median partitionary", "multiple partitionary", "median blurian" and "multiple blurian" stamps with the median partitionary, multiple partitionary, median blurian and multiple blurian flags respectively

[granulesofsand]

Discrete

Still think I shouldn’t need a special word for ‘amnesia for an event I was not present to experience’. I get that the external body I inhabit was present, but I was not near the surface. Amnesia implies forgetting. Forgetting implies you once remembered. Remembering implies you were there. You cannot form a memory for an event you were not present for, so you cannot have amnesia for that event.

The amnesia we do have in our system is forgetting information we had previously encoded into memory, or inability to encode that information. We do not have amnesia for the time we were not fronting, because we were not there.

You don’t have amnesia for the time I stuck my foot in an ice fishing hole, you were not there. If someone shows you a recording of the Mars rover singing Happy Birthday, you didn’t remember being there. If I tell you that there are unique species of animals in caverns sealed in the arctic, that doesn’t mean you were at the discovery.

I subscribe to a ‘the universe is plural’ ideology; we are all connected by means of coexistence, and we have means of interaction we would not if we were not beings in this structure. That doesn’t make us any more one or separate than any other point in time. The world we know does not allow sapient creatures to encode information they have not been exposed to. Epigenetics can be compared to forming with innate knowledge. Still not amnesiac for events you were not present for.

I legit don’t think we need a word for this. If you don’t share memories, you have memory barriers. That’s accurate. I’m down to say ‘partitionary’ and ‘discrete’. When I call this phenomenon ‘amnesia’, it is for ease of communication. I don’t believe it’s true, but I understand others know this concept as a subset of this category. I’m still pissy about it.