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Radiolab / June 11, 2004 / Opening monologue from the play "Mnemonic," performed by playwright Simon McBurney

Opening monologue from the play "Mnemonic," performed by playwright Simon McBurney

Friday, June 11, 2004

Simon McBurney
scene from Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic
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 it again in real-time, and therefore changes it.

Links:
» Originally performed for Studio 360
» Theatre de Complicite website


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