Our self is based on memories of past experiences while the retrieval, recollection and reconstruction of the past is reciprocally influenced by the self. Memory’s imperfection is classified in this book in seven sins (intended here as in transgressions fatal to spiritual progress/ ways in which the normal, everyday operations of our mind may occasionally produce suboptimal or flawed memory experiences):

• Forgetting: 01 transience/ 02 absent-mindedness/ 03 blocking
• Distortion: 01 misattribution/ 02 suggestibility/ 03 bias
• Intrusive memories: 01 persistence

• Image 01 available here
• Image o2 available here

See also; Joseph LeDoux, 2002, Synptic Self: In the absence of learning and memory processes the self would be an impoverished expression of our genetic constitution