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There's an arbitrariness, a mundaneness to some indelible memories that defies this explanation. Or any explanation like this. It feels partly true. But ther
by jonahx 1y ago
There's an arbitrariness, a mundaneness to some indelible memories that defies this explanation. Or any explanation like this. It feels partly true. But there's got to be more, in my experience.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoWhen I was six, I was standing in the middle of my bedroom, nothing particularly interesting was happening, and I said to myself " I'm going to remember this moment for the rest of my life". And I did.
- canpan 1y agoI would say being 6, standing in your bedroom and thinking "I'm going to remember this moment for the rest of my life" would fall under "particular interesting event".
- JadeNB 1y agoI think it's also an old greentext. (A quick search doesn't turn up exactly that, though I'm sure I remember it with slightly different wording, but there is https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/a6ucsc/anon_remembers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/a6ucsc/anon_reme....)
- squigz 1y agoWell you can't say that for certain, yet...
- rixed 1y agoWhat I find fascinating with those is that there is no way to tell if it's a real memory or not.
- makeitdouble 1y ago> It feels partly true I think that's the most we can ever expect from studying a complex system. On the arbitrariness, I wonder how it goes if a triggering event happens, the circumstances are retroactively prioritized as well, but down the line the event itself gets forgotten/deprioritized. In computer terms, it's probably not some atomic transaction that will be fully rolled back, and it probably can misfire as well, so there must be a wealth of memories that are attached to the same prioritization principle but in some broken way.