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The proposed mechanism is that all recalled long-term memories (older than this week) are weighted independently of recency, so as you get older more of your me
by gowld 5y ago
The proposed mechanism is that all recalled long-term memories (older than this week) are weighted independently of recency, so as you get older more of your memories are from the past years than the latest year, so the latest year seems less substantial.
- guerrilla 5y agoThis is just more elaboration of the hypothesis. It doesn't actually explain anything neurologically. What's the implementation? How do you plan to test for it?
- refurb 5y agoThe article doesn’t explain it neurologically either other than saying “more brain connections means long time to traverse the brain” which is just a bunch of handwaving.