"We are all so fascinated with recalling things;
Taking photographs, writing them down, and above all -
remembering them. It's phonographic. 'Cause you see; if
you don't remember anything - you don't know you're
there.
A person who had total amnesia, and lived in split
seconds only, wouldn't know he was there.
But suddenly, to know that you're there, you need an
echo.
There was a young man who said though, it seems that I
know that I know, what I would like to see is the I that
knows me when I know that I know that I know."
(Alan Watts)