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goobster  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your Memories Aren't Your Memories

Maybe I was being too careless in my wording.

Our impression of what memories are, is wrong.

Your memory of a situation is actually a re-enactment of that situation, that you are undergoing now.

When you remember that situation again in the future, you are re-enacting the last re-enactment, not going back to the "original memory" and remembering it again.

.... and thinking about that just makes me want to write some Philip K. Dick sci-fi...