1 How do we store and retrieve memories?
2 How do our memories and experiences shape who are are?
3 What makes certain memories “stick” more than others?
4 How does memory relate to attachment—such as to other people, or even to inanimate objects, such as stuffed alpacas?
5Are our memories always reliable? If not, when can they become unreliable?
6 Can our memories lead to distortions of judgment?
7 Can we influence the way people remember us?
8 Even without the help of technology, can we choose to edit our own memories – if so, how?
9 How reliable is your memory? What steps can you take to make it more reliable?
10 What is the evolutionary value of memory? Does answering this question suggest anything about what memories we might be most likely to hold onto?
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1)
The neural basis of this is called Recurrent Neural Networks.
Basically there are brain cells called neurons. They “spike” when neighboring neurons send electrical signals of a certain threshold. When they do these repeatedly, they form strong bonds with each other. Now a neural network exists that works to give you some experience.
2)
You are a collection of your experiences - every conversation, every place you visited, every relationship you had contributes to shape who you are. You are also your beliefs that drive you into the future and at some point become part of your experiences. This means that nobody but YOU are in control what’s next.
3)There are lots of factors at work here. One, unfortunately, is the presence of adrenaline, which tends to sharpen memories. Why is that unfortunate? Because it means that many of our most unpleasant, traumatic memories are also the clearest.
When you say “stick” you probably mean that these memories are easier to recall. The more associations with a particular memory, the more threads that lead to it, means a better chance of finding it and recalling it. An isolated fact is going to be harder to recall than one with a larger context around it.
4)If you are more interested in the source, or more details, let me know and Ill try to find the book, becouse I tried to search on internet but did not find much about that really.
5)Memory can frequently be unreliable, even when the individual believes what they are saying is true. Repressed memory has become somewhat popular, but has been generally discredited, since empirical findings do not support its prevalence; therefore such a claim should be considered suspect (Ehrenfeld, 2015). However, there is the potential for false memories, implanted by circumstances and/or generated within the individual.
6)Yes. Memories are indeed fallible.
They are not only fallible but also prone to distortions and errors as time passes by. We do not remember past events in a linear fashion.Memory is considered to be reconstructive and we take bits and pieces and reconstruct what happened on any given day. Reconstruction can have lots of errors.
Hence when we depend entirely on our memory , it can lead to distortions of judgement.
7)My recommendation is to create your influences or impacts straight from the heart. Displaying a show is always short lasting, and most of all, easy to detect whether it’s fake.
8)Just reconstruct the memory the way you’d like it to be, and then purposely remember the new memory enough times until it overwrites the old one.
It takes time but it’s possible.
What you remember isn’t likely true anyway.
9)Not very good. (I used to joke, “If I got Alzheimer’s, would anyone notice?”).
A book that I liked was Supermemory/by Herrmann. It said techniques to remember, and also one can use physical aids, like a timer or putting something you need to bring to work by the door.
(Also, How to develop a brilliant memory, by Dominic O’brien, tells, among other things, how to remember jokes.)
10)Natural selection (evolution) means that something with no memory probably would soon make a deadly mistake - and get dead. Thus severely limiting (or accidentally terminating) its survival and reproduction potential, especially when compared with: anything living (whether, the same species or not) that could remember things.
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