“What you want is something that imbues you with the necessary forms of memory that allow you to make metapositions of ordinary awareness … consciously accessible.

First you get the memory forms. Then you get conscious access to the corresponding experiences. There are a variety of available conduits of such ‘in-form-ation’.

Dreaming and art have this capacity in common, and this is, in part, why art is understood to cause consciousness to evolve. Intellectual endeavor also shares this feature, but its nature is vastly more abstract and structured.

Art is (in part) the experience of imprinting that creates new forms of memory, and thus, new features of experience become accessible to consciousness.”

— an anonymous informant