Fascinating stuff. We are all storytellers to ourselves — coordinating current preceptions into a meaningful, functional whole, and recalling them later in still more of an interpreted gestalt than a detailed video. We attempt to draw meaning and coherency from the world, which is both a great strength and a great weakness in various circumstances.
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"It’s not that our memory is a glitchy wetware version of computer flash memory; it’s that the computer metaphor just doesn’t apply. Roediger said we store only bits and pieces of what happened—a smattering of impressions we weave together into feels like a seamless narrative. When we retrieve a memory, we also rewrite it, so that the time next we go to remember it, we don’t retrieve the original memory but the last one we recollected."
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Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a …
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