My question is how are consciousness and memory connected?

of consciousness and memory? I think they are intimately linked.

I think we can start from the kind of intuition that if we had no memory at all, that we were just located in the immediate present, it would be very hard to articulate what that was like.

We seem to have an experience that is...

Extended in time.

And we talk of a stream of consciousness moving through time.

And I think recent data actually from psychophysical experiments show us that consciousness is surprisingly slow.

But I suppose the question is about how you make that transition from having these different abilities to the conscious experience itself.