The Labyrinth of Mnemosyne
13 hrs. 16 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Sergey Ivanov
Author
Sergey Ivanov
Narrator
Vladimir Samoylov
Narrator
Vladimir Samoylov
Description
When Prometheus gave people divine fire, an enraged Zeus ordered him to be chained to a rock. But it was not only the theft of fire that enraged the Thunderer. Together with fire, Prometheus gave people another priceless gift—memory. Thanks to it people became people: they learned to study, to think, and to manage their fate without looking back to the gods. Thanks to it they mastered fire, learned crafts, invented writing, and in the end reached for the stars.
Many of nature’s riddles people helped decode with Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and mother of nine Muses. But the hardest riddle has not yet been solved. It is the riddle of Mnemosyne herself, of memory itself.
Psychologists, physiologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, biochemists try to solve it. The labyrinth of Mnemosyne is complex and winding. What do we remember and what don’t—and why? Does memory have boundaries? Where is it stored? The riddle of Mnemosyne breaks down into a thousand riddles, and each one needs its own special little key. For one—psychological experience; for another—biochemical analysis; for a third— a silver electrode; for a fourth… The author collected these keys into a whole set and now invites the reader to journey into the labyrinth—to go through all the corridors, to unlock all the doors. The journey promises to be interesting: work has long been going on in the labyrinth, the ideas of research are pounding—man is solving the riddle of the psyche and the brain, man is learning himself.
Recorded in 1972.
Many of nature’s riddles people helped decode with Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and mother of nine Muses. But the hardest riddle has not yet been solved. It is the riddle of Mnemosyne herself, of memory itself.
Psychologists, physiologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, biochemists try to solve it. The labyrinth of Mnemosyne is complex and winding. What do we remember and what don’t—and why? Does memory have boundaries? Where is it stored? The riddle of Mnemosyne breaks down into a thousand riddles, and each one needs its own special little key. For one—psychological experience; for another—biochemical analysis; for a third— a silver electrode; for a fourth… The author collected these keys into a whole set and now invites the reader to journey into the labyrinth—to go through all the corridors, to unlock all the doors. The journey promises to be interesting: work has long been going on in the labyrinth, the ideas of research are pounding—man is solving the riddle of the psyche and the brain, man is learning himself.
Recorded in 1972.
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