Useful link.

I was reading the written piece from the Stanford University; it talks about the concepts of memory. It explains in some considerable depth about the concepts of memory, they explain that memory is itself a type of knowledge, and can only be obtained by experience, but for someone that has misplaced those memories, it must mean that I have also lost in tail, knowledge, experiences and emotions that would have been associated with those events. 
They also discuss that unlike pure imagination, memory documents real events, but I have experienced a few events that I thought I had been involved with but it turns out that I had fabricated the whole event from other people telling me what had happened, used the stories, that no doubt were stored in my head, used those stories with me in and worked out a whole new perception where I have altered my reality, and have lived an event "second hand" so to speak. 

I think It goes without saying that memory is a very interesting thing, without our ability to analyse and store information, we don't actually exist, because we would only be able to recall the present, and not be able to predict the future based on our past, or reflect on out past as a whole. 

I watched, only a few days ago, the film "Total Recall" and I honestly had no idea on its relevance to my project, had I known, I would probably looked at it earlier. 

The whole concept that the main character is one of the main antagonists is quite clever, because it’s not that he has no memory, he just has an altered memory, which brings me onto a subject that I covered in games design, hyper reality. 
Like the matrix, total recall gives its viewer another perspective on life, one that cannot easily be disproved. 
Could our lives be real? Or some sort of manufactured environment? 
Could our memories be real? Or again manufactured? 

As for the environment, for most of us it IS manufactured, the house, and every single aspect has been manufactured to cater to what is deemed to be our needs. 
But you never really get a say as to what these needs are, society and corporations create not to needs, but more so to desires. 

Realistically, the TV exists for two things, to help sell us more of these manufactured goods that we don’t need and to apparently "entertain us" but my guess is that if your life never had a TV in it, you might find the concept of sitting in front of a box for hours a little... pointless? 
The stimulation that the television gives us is basically a release, from our busy day to day lives, I think that to ensure that the populous repeats and work, they need a brain stimulus with minimal effort, and TV provides this, you can feel social and evolved with whatever you are watching. 

But work itself is not that alien a concept, ants for example, outnumber people something like a billion to one, and there system of a sort of order of society has provided them with a very successful species. 
Humans however, all feel equal, and it’s this equality that brings about our downfalls... 
Anyway, completely gone off on a tangent, and this is somewhat irrelevant on this project, or is it? 
Well maybe not so much now I think about it, but either way my time in the library has ended.


http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/