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Maybe this is why deja vu happens? You run the "compression" and produce a memory that's very similar to another memory? The brain is nothing like a computer,
by ivraatiems 5y ago
Maybe this is why deja vu happens? You run the "compression" and produce a memory that's very similar to another memory?
The brain is nothing like a computer, so the hash table analogy is almost certainly inaccurate, but it's a funny idea.
- ornornor 5y agoI read somewhere that déjà vu is when your two hemispheres get out of sync for a split moment and record the same input one after the other. But I don’t know if that’s true for sure. Or maybe they’re just rearranging the matrix.
- cecilpl2 5y agoAnother theory I read was that some signal from your hippocampus (memory storage) fires, so that the rest of your brain believes erroneously that the current sensory input is coming from memory.
- baja_blast 5y agoI believe this is the case. I have heard the same thing and it matches my experience every time I get déjà vu. I have this strong sense that what is happening has happened before, but I am unable to relate it to anything nor recall what should happen next.
- vmception 5y agoAt this point I would need the hash table analogy explicitly disproved because I see something more and more like the computers we develop Short term memory operates radically different than long term memory Co processors doing specialized processing, with a limited ability of other processors to do it Each having their own currently unknown instruction set Bus between the processor with varying bandwidth constraints Modules for processing certain kinds of input, maybe some completely vestigial after deprecation