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The Weight of Memories

Cixin Liu

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4/5 Stars. (%72/100) The short story is about a woman who wants to give birth to a child that has inherited her memories. It's like giving birth to yourself but it's actually giving birth to a child who has your memories. The author talks about the idea of inheriting memories and whether they are the things that make humans human. There is a nice plot twist at the end so I don't want to spoil it for you. I quite enjoyed the story. There is not much narration instead it's made of dialogues. I think it is an interesting idea that Liu Cixin touches upon. Are your memories the reason you are you? also if you could give your memories to a child, would you? are some of the questions that the author asks and expects you to answer. A very short story and I'd suggest you give it a go.
The Weight of Memories
The Weight of MemoriesCixin Liu · 20163 okunma
The world was a blooming flower, a beautiful, gigantic toy. He was completely unprepared for the long, winding road of life ahead of him, and thus ready for anything.
Reklam
I now understand why evolution shut off the activation of inherited memories in humans. As our minds grew ever more sensitive, the ignorance that accompanied our birth was like a warm hut that protected us from the harsh realities of the world. We have taken away your child’s nest and tossed him onto a desolate plain, exposed to the elements.
We made a terrible mistake in thinking that replicating memories was sufficient to replicate a person. A self is composed of many things besides memories, things that cannot be replicated. A person’s memories are like a book, and different readers will experience different feelings. It’s a terrible thing to allow an unborn child to read such a heavy, bleak book.
The distant ancestors of modern humans clearly possessed inherited memories that were activated, but over time, such memories became suppressed. We couldn’t explain why evolution would favor the loss of such an important advantage. But nature always has its reasons. There must be some danger that caused these memories to be shut off.
In fact, memory inheritance is very common across different species. For example, many cognitive patterns we call “instincts”—such as a spider’s knowledge of how to weave a web or a bee’s understanding of how to construct a hive—are really just inherited memories.
Reklam
But in my mind, all your memories are clear, as clear as though they happened yesterday.