Not at all, but I’d say we don’t really remember ancient kings either. We might remember the effect they had on the world, or some particularly unusual characteristic that was recorded for posterity, but I’d say that once the last person who knew them dies, we can no longer remember ‘them’, so much as witness a sort of ‘shell’ of ideas about them.
We don’t remember what they sounded like, or smelt like, how they smiled or what they said to their nearest and dearest. We don’t really know much about them as people compared to the king that became their shell. The things that made them unique people are gone when the last person who experienced them dies, so I’d say we really don’t remember them as people, even if we do remember the ‘king’ or ‘copper merchant’.
Not at all, but I’d say we don’t really remember ancient kings either. We might remember the effect they had on the world, or some particularly unusual characteristic that was recorded for posterity, but I’d say that once the last person who knew them dies, we can no longer remember ‘them’, so much as witness a sort of ‘shell’ of ideas about them.
We don’t remember what they sounded like, or smelt like, how they smiled or what they said to their nearest and dearest. We don’t really know much about them as people compared to the king that became their shell. The things that made them unique people are gone when the last person who experienced them dies, so I’d say we really don’t remember them as people, even if we do remember the ‘king’ or ‘copper merchant’.