Memory is never truly lost...

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  • Snowball
    BARRELED IN @ SBR!
    • 11-15-09
    • 30054

    #1
    Memory is never truly lost...
    How old are you? All those years, you've seen and done many, many things. Let's just talk about the things you've seen. To be more specific, EVERYTHING you've ever seen. Wonder why is it, that out of all these things, only a number of them can you "pull up" in your head right now, and see them again, like retreiving a file in some dusty cabinet from a decrepit old hospital out of the X-Files. You're the investigator, and you walk into one of these weatherbeaten giant shoeboxes of steel and glass, hope not to slip on the formica flooring that's peeling off in tiles on the ends, that black plastic moulding glue is breating out of cruddy corners... and there's some ancient curmudgeon in his 70's who never retired, he's the clerk.... then you approach him, and say, "I need the file on (insert your name here), from 1/11/81, the old natter pulls down his spectacles, gazes upon your countenance and replies, "We haven't had a visitor in months, but I'll do what I can." -- after some 20 minutes, he returns with the file.... and it's stuffed with negatives of every single thing you saw on that day.

    So, why is it that you already CAN see some of these things, but not most of them? Some things you remember so well, and people too, it's like looking at them right now. Others, you can't find the file... but the files are there. They are all in the same place, above the clouds, connected to your head invisibly by gossamer threads.
  • KVB
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 05-29-14
    • 74817

    #2
    This is wildly inaccurate.

    Memories of things deemed unimportant actually are lost, forever, and what you think are memories being recalled aren't even going to be accurate as your brain will make it up to suit you.

    If it's not important, then likely your memory of it is false to some degree. With rarely accessed and non vital information, most of your memory is false, more than is accurate as only bits and pieces are left to be recalled. The brain makes the rest of it up.

    It's how the brain works.
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    • Foxx
      SBR Hall of Famer
      • 05-25-11
      • 5831

      #3
      I drink a lot. I am pretty sure I've lost quite a bit.
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      • Snowball
        BARRELED IN @ SBR!
        • 11-15-09
        • 30054

        #4
        Originally posted by KVB
        This is wildly inaccurate.

        Memories of things deemed unimportant actually are lost, forever, and what you think are memories being recalled aren't even going to be accurate as your brain will make it up to suit you.

        If it's not important, then likely your memory of it is false to some degree. With rarely accessed and non vital information, most of your memory is false, more than is accurate as only bits and pieces are left to be recalled. The brain makes the rest of it up.

        It's how the brain works.
        who told you that, some material reductionist evolutionist that believes neurons are the source of consciousess?
        I believe in the supernatural, preternatural and non-molecular sources of mind.
        Consciousness is not stored in the brain like a computer file. It doesn't have a physical locus.
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        • JIBBBY
          SBR Aristocracy
          • 12-10-09
          • 83686

          #5
          Originally posted by Foxx
          I drink a lot. I am pretty sure I've lost quite a bit.
          Drinking does begin to slowly mess with your mind and memory. One of the side effects .
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          • big joe 1212
            SBR Posting Legend
            • 06-01-08
            • 19380

            #6
            I can’t even remember the first post in this thread
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            • TheGoldenGoose
              SBR MVP
              • 11-27-12
              • 3745

              #7
              Whatever the memory loss by drinking can be recovered 4X by tripping.
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