Full Idea
Bergson has shown that memory is not an actual image which forms after the object has been perceived, but a virtual image coexisting with the actual perception of the object.
Gist of Idea
Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it
Source
report of Henri Bergson (Matter and Memory [1896]) by Gilles Deleuze - The Actual and the Virtual p.114
Book Reference
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.114
A Reaction
It strikes me as plausible to say that all conscious life is memory. Perceiving the present instant is only possible because it endures for a tiny moment.
Related Idea
Idea 6668 If the present does not exist, then consciousness must be memory of the immediate past [Marshall]