Start with the observation

A tree records seasons in its rings, a body carries earlier habits, and a small device can retain years of words and images.

Follow the reasoning

  1. Preservation appears at every scale, from genetic information to the consequences held in character.
  2. What looks finished often continues as record, effect or seed.
  3. It is therefore not unreasonable to ask whether conscious actions are also preserved within a greater memory.

A passage to hold beside it

“Does this human being suppose that they will be left unattended?” 1

Read plainly

The world behaves less like a place where everything vanishes without trace and more like a place where results are continually gathered.

Try observing this

Follow one action from yesterday into the effects it still has today.

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