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Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic ( Simon McBurney and Katrin Cartlidge)Memories
Radio Lab looks at the mystery of memory - what our brains retain, forget and keep selectively hidden from us. Six stories that have memory (not home movie nostalgia, but memory itself) at their center.
Opening monologue from the play "Mnemonic," performed by playwright Simon McBurney
It was thought for years that the brain stores experiences in the same way a computer stores information on a hard drive In other words: click...ahh, there it is, exactly the way I left it. Simon McBurney recently learned that this is not the case, that in fact each time we remember an experience, our brain re-imagines that experience, constructs again in realtime, and therefore changes it.
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Originally performed for Studio
360
Theatre de Complicite
Adding Memory
In Philip K Dick’s ‘do androids dream of electric sheep’- the replicants- or robots- that were the most authentic were the ones with memory chips installed in them...human memory chips. This an idea which makes sense to writer Andrei Codrescu...he dares to ask the question "where do computers get their extra memory from?"
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From the book 101
Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
More on Andrei Codrescu
More of Andrei's commentaries are available at npr.org
Jack Mudurian Sings
Why on earth do we remember certain things and just can't recall others. Jack Mudurian remembers more songs than anyone needs to - long after he's forgotten almost everything else.
Produced by Jay Allison and David Greenberger.
Originally broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered, as part of the series Lost
and Found Sound.
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Downloading
the Repertoire
Painter Joe
Joe Andoe paints what he sees in his minds eye, and what he's been seeing for the past ten years are horses, pastures, and - more recently - a girl with a particular about-to-say-something look on her face. He didn't realize until recently that he'd been painting a day from his past, a fragment of an afternoon 30 years earlier.
Produced by Neda Pourang
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More on Painter Joe Andoe
Finding Amnesia
Wouldn't it be nice to just start from scratch, throw away the past and take on a new identity? With amnesia such a constant plot line in movies and romance novels, Scott Carrier figures it shouldn't be too hard to find.
Finding Amnesia, produced by Scott Carrier
Originally aired on the program This
American Life
The Farm
PCP, shotgun, murder? That's how the narrator remembers it. But that doesn't
mean it really happened. What exactly happened?...
He can't remember.
Produced by Chris Layton
Links:
The
Farm on Transorm.org
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