Jason Silva on Memory | Brain Games

what’s interesting about memory is that
it’s essentially how we understand
ourselves and how we put ourselves in
our lives into context you would beam’s
think and breathe in storage memory
doesn’t actually work by recording
specific facts accurately memory anchors
us emotionally to certain experiences
that we then pinch you know we remember
what we want to remember we edit what we
remember we we alter what we remember
the philosopher Daniel Kahneman says
that we actually approach the present
already thinking of the anticipated
memory that we want to keep because it’s
ultimately all we get to keep you know
the success of social media sharing apps
like Instagram allow us to anchor
emotional moments in our lives and
actually and actually edit those moments
and actually give them an emotional
flavor with our choice of photo filter
we’re actually saying this mental
scaffolding known as a photograph is
going to tell me how I’m going to
remember this moment and in the future
when we look back upon those memories
we’re gonna change them even more what
happens to us in the future changes how
we remember the past and that’s a
fascinating thing perhaps a bit poetic
but ultimately the insight being it’s
very important for mankind to take note
of events that are happening because all
historians remember everything
differently everything is tinged by
preconception expectation stereotypes
and prejudices the human memory system
is malleable
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