Episode 3.21: The limits of consciousness and the three tyrannies of the ancient world.

Consciousness can only process 16-120 bits per second and our short-term memory can only hold between 12 and 18 items. So what is our relationship to our own history, long-term memories and the 625 pages of notes on my desk or the 97 voice-notes in this sequence? Need they be coherent and consistent? Is the person who produced the first the same as the person who is producing this one? In other words, is identity persistent? Is our future determined by our past? Should we refuse to allow it to be? Unmaking this kind of sense.