Our terrors and our darknesses of mind must be dispelled not by sunshine's rays, not by those shining arrows of light, but by insight into nature.

The real is the end product, the result of the passive syntheses of desire as autoproduction of the unconcious.

If we ever get to the point of charting a whole city or a whole nation, we would have an intricate maze of psychological reactions which would present a picture of a vast solar system of intangible structures, powerfully influencing conducts, as gravitation does bodies in space.

Let us pause for a moment and imagine indeed the topology of the multicellular organism that is the human body. As I wrote in the past, the body does not consist of an epidermic bag containing a set of organs (this would be the Euclidean reading of it). One would commonly agree that what is inside our throat is “inside our body;” yet, what is outside our throat is also “inside the body.” Which part is inside and which part is outside? This question is irrelevant because our body is not an Euclidean space, it is a topological one.

In Nous, there is no distance. The city is folded, it entangles inside and outside to a point of merging distant places through topological bends, making impossible connections possible. Like our brain, Nous ultimately confuses information and location - no absolute routes exist, but memories traveling in between places. In a dialogue of repetition and differences, the city is redrawn by its people every day - inexact by essence, not by accident.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.

Well, here's how you can think about the mind as well. When its object is something which is lit up by truth and reality, then it has—and obviously has—intelligent awareness and knowledge. However, when its object is permeated with darkness (that is, when its object is something which is subject to generation and decay), then it has beliefs and is less effective, because its beliefs chop and change, and under these circumstances it comes across as devoid of intelligence.

Memory really matters only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Memory conformity, also known as social contagion of memory, refers to the phenomenon where memories or information reported by others influences an individual and is incorporated into the individual's memory. Memory conformity is a memory error due to both social influences and cognitive mechanisms.