The psychology of memory and recollection : read to the Psychological Society of Great Britain, June 1st, 1876 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Edward William Cox
Date:
1876
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Credit: The psychology of memory and recollection : read to the Psychological Society of Great Britain, June 1st, 1876 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RECOLLECTION. Bead to the Psychological Society of Great Britain, June 1st, 1876, by Mr. Serjeant Cox, the President. Is our sense of identity due to memory and to memory alone ? Brown and some others assert that so it is. If, they say, a rose be presented to the sense of smell, removed, and again presented, we recognise our identity by the recollection we have in the second presentation that the like object had been presented before. Identity is a repetition of conscious- ness. They add that, but for this faculty of memory and recollection, there would be no conscious identity. If, when tEe second sensation occurred, we had no consciousness of any previous sensation, we should have no sense of personal identity. Practically, we should have a new existence with every new sensation. It may be well questioned if we have not some other cou- [131]