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That's a great point. Also I wonder how this pertains to flashbacks. For some reason I get flashbacks that are completely random; they occur for no particular r
by y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
That's a great point. Also I wonder how this pertains to flashbacks. For some reason I get flashbacks that are completely random; they occur for no particular reason (that I've identified), the memory itself can be from childhood all the way up to recent adulthood, and they have no association with any trauma or extra stimulation. For example a flashback of me in my teenage years standing at a bus stop. Fairly innocuous memory right? This issue is amplified when I consume THC; I can end up having many flashbacks while I'm high and most of them are things I haven't thought of ever since the experience occurred decades ago. I kind of appreciate them due to the nostalgia, but it's strange.
- georgeg23 4y agoAlways figured that was the brain clearing space for new memories and saying "hey we can delete this right?"
- icare_1er 4y agoI have this strong impression that a new field, sat in between medical research and phylosophy, should be created: "introspection". It seems to me that certain scientifical truths regarding the nature of consciousness, how we experience things, etc, can only be addressed in a subjective manner, ie. by interrogating ourselves, and reflecting ourselves, in a scientific way, on why we feel a certain way, under what circumstances, what happen if i change parameter x or y, do i still feel the same, etc... That also sounds like heresy in terms of scientific studies but the more i read about that topic (Dennett, Penrose, etc...) the more this becomes obvious to me, that internal "thought experiments" can actually uncovered strong realities of how we think and are conscious.