There is a semantic problem that I have often run into when discussing memory and consciousness. People usually have distinct conceptualizations of "memory" and "consciousness" that do not overlap. In what follows I will try to bring memory and consciousness together. There are famous examples from history in which two apparently unrelated phenomena were found to be related. For example, Newton realized that the same force that holds people to the ground is what holds the Earth's Moon and the planets in their orbits.