re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s a scary thing to realize that a memory changes each time your recall it.

This is why testimony from memory holds so little weight in judicial matters.

And why we, anyeone, should have a healthy skepticism when people talk about remembering this or that thing from their childhood.

I can recall various items from my childhood, but I am also sure that the earliest ones I remember have now been sort of put into a fuzzy album in my mind, and I am not sure of the details.

I think I know the details, but over the past 6 decades I have remembered a few early memories so much that I am sure they have somehow been edited.

That video didn’t talk at all about what I learned about memory in the past few years.

The reason you can remember some old stuff really well, is that you have thought about it many times since, and each time, you make another memory in another location. The video contradicted that, saying the original location of the memory is reinforced. I don’t know if that was mice or people. Repetition is key to memory, as language learners do.

What I think I figured out about how the brain works over the past several years, is that there is more Unknown than there is Known.