"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.
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)