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Agreed. Up until I was about 20 years old I could remember details about seeing movies such as which venue (theater, house) and which familiar people were prese

Agreed. Up until I was about 20 years old I could remember details about seeing movies such as which venue (theater, house) and which familiar people were present. Eventually that started to fade. Nowadays, after another 20 years, some movies get re-watched and it's like I'm watching them for the first time. It just seems like the catalog is too large and the significance of seeing a movie is much lower. I think we may all have slightly different "file systems" as well too. So one person's memory might fail in a different way. Similarly, I think we may all have different methods of facial recognition. Note how some people will say "oh, this person looks so much like that person" while you might really disagree.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago
I'm obscenely young, but have you ever not remembered something, and then stopped thinking about it, and a day or two later the memory hit you like a train out of nowhere? That's happened twice to me, and it's as if the brain spawned a search daemon that worked in the background and successfully returned (along with the context of the query) later. uwu Das cwazy... Also there's no way computer analogies can't flawlessly capture neurology.
- perl4ever 7y ago
  I recently lost something I bought, thought I'd accidentally thrown it away, and a day or two later found it in the refrigerator (it wasn't edible).
- dredds 7y ago
  It's a good analogy and with a few variants. As you said, there's the one where conscious and unconscious feel at odds with each other and can't seem to run the same search at the same time. One workaround is being close to remembering a name and counting through the alphabet until you hesitate on a letter then it'll just pop to the surface. It works well i think because we're visualizing the person while discounting false leads. (left-brain/right-brain bridge)
rolltiide 7y ago
Having read everything in this thread, I think every anecdote here is misattributed. I think the whole population is experiencing an information overload and all the correlations with age have nothing to do with cause.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago

I'm obscenely young, but have you ever not remembered something, and then stopped thinking about it, and a day or two later the memory hit you like a train out of nowhere? That's happened twice to me, and it's as if the brain spawned a search daemon that worked in the background and successfully returned (along with the context of the query) later. uwu Das cwazy... Also there's no way computer analogies can't flawlessly capture neurology.

perl4ever 7y ago
I recently lost something I bought, thought I'd accidentally thrown it away, and a day or two later found it in the refrigerator (it wasn't edible).
dredds 7y ago
It's a good analogy and with a few variants. As you said, there's the one where conscious and unconscious feel at odds with each other and can't seem to run the same search at the same time. One workaround is being close to remembering a name and counting through the alphabet until you hesitate on a letter then it'll just pop to the surface. It works well i think because we're visualizing the person while discounting false leads. (left-brain/right-brain bridge)

rolltiide 7y ago

Having read everything in this thread, I think every anecdote here is misattributed. I think the whole population is experiencing an information overload and all the correlations with age have nothing to do with cause.