The Myth of the World

In order to remember something, we write it down. And so we have a flat and stable piece of paper and we make marks on it with a pencil and they stay there. So we begin to think is mental memory something of the same kind. Is there something stable upon which the passage of thoughts makes an impression? We say he impressed me very much. This was a lasting impression on my mind. As if we were tablets,. indeed the philosopher Locke, used the expression tabula rasa or clean slate to describe the mind of a child who has not yet collected any memories. But you see, this superstition is related to a much more ancient superstition that the world consists of two