Memory in times of complexity

Abstract

This is a brief reflection on the collective memory based on some basic principles of complexity and transdisciplinarity, for example recursion, dialogicity and levels of reality, exposed in terms as simple as the subject allows. The first section develops the principles in terms of a thought open to other ways of knowing and focuses on several levels of reality, as opposed to a linear and mechanistic thought as inherited from the nineteenth century with respect to the subject of memory.
The second section focuses on describing memory as the result of an evolutionary process based on a cooperation strategy that facilitated living beings to survive, which is expressed in such a way in the group work of neurons, people and species.
In the third and last section we observe the emotional part of the memory, necessary to fix a memory in the social context and how it can mobilize words or actions to give meaning to societies when they are in extreme situations in which it is necessary recourse to memory to reaffirm the origin and defend its present.

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