It is an article of faith that everything that we do as human beings is based upon our memories. The very foundation of who we are is built upon a series of half second intervals that record where we have been and direct us to where we will go.
Memory is the capacity to glue the world together.
And it is that gluing process that enables us to be human. It is the machinery of our identity. We would be utterly lost without it. But there are different views on the power and importance of memory. It's extraordinary how little we do remember.