When Timothy Leary was dying, his long-time friend Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) went to see him. The two had always disagreed on the important philosophical question of mind and body. In Alpert's opinion, we are not our bodies. So when we die, our mind can continue on in a spiritual dimension.
Leary disagreed, believing that our mind is the memories and other senses of self which are stored in the brain. He believed that when we die, our brain dies with us and all our memories are destroyed with it. So in this view, death was the end of who we are.
So when Leary told Alpert,"You know Richard, I was thinking the other day and I suddenly realized that we are more than just our memories."
Alpert suddenly sat up in his chair, hearing Leary making what seemed like a concession to his views. He said, "So what is it that we are that is more than our memories?" he asked, nodding and smiling.
Leary (who liked to play around a bit with his friend) said, "I forget."
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