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Question I desperately want the answer to: if memories are encoded (nature not nurture), then how far back can we remember? And where is this intuition derived
by dfee 7y ago
Question I desperately want the answer to: if memories are encoded (nature not nurture), then how far back can we remember? And where is this intuition derived from?
For example, we can almost imagine what memories are shared to us from 3-4 generations back, and assumably that pattern continues. Does it end 20k years ago (presumably not), are there intuitions that are wiped out over millennia, or do we have intuitions that date back to our first multicellular / higher order processing days?
- simonh 7y agoIs there any evidence for this? I suppose instincts are 'nature' driven evolved memories of a kind, but I'm not sure that's what you are referring to.
- twic 7y agoNot what you're asking about, but there's an idea that some Australian Aboriginal legends record historical events that happened thirteen thousand years ago: https://theconversation.com/ancient-aboriginal-stories-preserve-history-of-a-rise-in-sea-level-36010 https://theconversation.com/ancient-aboriginal-stories-prese...