Remembered-Thinking-Theory: Abstract and PDF

Part 1 of the essay “Thinking, Remembering Thinking, Thinking about a Memory of Thinking, and how that Messes with Time”.

Abstract

This investigation isolates remembered-thoughts as a means of contemplating the structure of thought, specifically by interweaving the concept of certainty into the concept of remembered-thinking, and representing each logical argument mathematically as well as in verbal-form. The paper contemplates mental methods for predicting the accuracy of a memory of an external observation at varying points in the future, in terms of evidence the theory hypothesizes the mind has evolved to perceive, and theorizes about how those same methods must carry-out when turned to memories of internal observations. The theory concludes that introspective contemplation drives perception to perceive concepts as perfectly-persistent in time and perfectly-relatable to other concepts, often to a degree of infinite (timeless) existence and infinite relatability, and demonstrates a correlation between this phenomenon and the establishment of perfect belief in concepts. The paper presents a comparison between the reality of this perfection and the inherent imperfection that exists in the universe described by special relativity, and based on this comparison defines knowledge as an entity that oscillates between conceptual perfection and real-world imperfection.

Introduction

How can conscious minds really know that they had the thoughts they remember having? What they have is the memory of the observation of the thought itself, either a stable object, like a colour or a familiar face remembered to have been brought to mind time and again, or a one-off thinking event remembered as a sudden insight, a final decision, or some other newly mix-and-matched set of concepts. Memories-of-thoughts are all the evidence conscious minds have of thought objects and events. Unlike memories of observations of external-objects, there’s no way to return to the object and reconfirm the remembered-features, and unlike memories of observations of external-events, there’s no residual event-effects reverberating into the future that offer evidence substantiating or unsubstantiating the remembered-details.

Axiom

The evidence substantiating or unsubstantiating the accuracy of a memory-of-a-thought is finite the moment the memory is created, and sourced solely from the thinker themselves. Remembered-thinking-theory is built entirely off this axiom.