On Remembering
A Point in Time in Which all Perspectives Collapsed Into Reality and Became History — 1990
An essay on a point in time in which all perspectives collapsed into reality — on memory as the act that fixes a lived moment into something that happened. Remembering, here, is treated almost as a measurement: the many possible readings of a moment collapse, in recollection, into the one we carry forward. The piece borrows the quantum image of collapse to describe how the past is not simply stored but resolved, and how what we remember becomes, for us, what was real. It sits among the essays that most directly link the theory's physical vocabulary to the interior life.
Read it beside On Witnessing and On Observing, the essays on carrying the past forward; this one looks at the internal version of that act. Its striking move is to treat memory almost as a measurement — the many possible readings of a moment collapsing, in recollection, into the single one we carry as what was real.
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