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Wiki MarkupHartshorne argues that "only an ideally perfect memory could constitute such conservation \ [_{+}sc{+}_. of experience, in its full vividness and value\]" ("The Buddhist-Whiteheadian View of the Self and the Religious Traditions" \ [#207\]: 301).

But if "memory" here means "conscious awareness," as beyond any serious question it does, "an ideally perfect memory" can be, at most, a symbolic, not an analogical, much less a literal, way of speaking. For memory, in this sense, is not a "cosmic," but a "local," variable; and only "cosmic variables" can be either analogical or literal.

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