Our capacity to remember episodes in our lives provides a profound and highly valued aspect to our existence, allowing us the capacity to relive events in our lives. We value the ability to relive a proud moment such as a graduation or the birth of a child. We expect and in many cases require that we will remember a meeting with a coworker or a visit to a family member. We start to question our mental capacities if we forget an episode, and we question the capabilities of others if they forget an episode that we remember. Thus, the memory for episodes is an essential component of human behavior.
Hasselmo, M.E., 2012. How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wewsh, high density, clinical neuro-physiology/biology or so. But the typological divisions of memory among episodic, procedural, and semantic seem an approach that reveals how we are. And the neural construction of spatio-temporal trajectory (episodic trajectory) is fascinating. Overall, it feels like the science is still in the process of sub-dividing ever more the energetic processes of be-ing.