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We use narratives as precursor-catalysts for the partial disambiguation of waking-world experience. Our personal and social identities and perspectives are founded upon narratives. Yet we were never informed that narratives also structure our relationship with memory, and this relationship predetermines the forms and faculties of our imagination and intelligence that we will gain access to — or be denied.

As adults, we will subscribe to and transmit all sorts of different narratological constructs; most of which will have a devastating effect on memory, identity and intelligence. The reasons for this are complex, but include a historical tendency to exchange ability and skill development for convenience; and a disturbing tendency for the species of narratives that damage or distort our structured relationships with memory and identity… to be the most contagious and ‘popular’.

In this video I explore crucial insights related to this topic, showing the relationship of memory to identity and intelligence, and discussing features of our relationship with narrative that we can transform — if and when we can become conscious of these matters.