Abstract

This paper analyses some passages of The magnitude of the soul, Confessions and The Trinity by St Augustine , in which remote roots of both non formalised ideas and technical algorithms by Daniel Maurice Dubois like the following are put down: distinction between memory of past, present and anticipated future; selfconsciousness; intentionality; self-referential finality; the conceptual philosophical distinction between RAM and sequence memory; the inclusive recursive function of memory; the memory trend to expand to infinity