Memory is not a precise record of past events but a dynamic, biased construct used to navigate the present and predict the future.
“the way we remember things is not the replay of the experience it's something totally different and it tends to be biased by the beginning and the end”
Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2024 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicMark suggests that human memory is not always reliable and can be influenced or even fabricated, as illustrated by his dream-based memories of being in prison.
“I remember these things I didn't live them I didn't live them in my dream I just remember them so the memories are baked in that I did this thing and it's so it's like someone inceptioned me that I went to prison”
Distractible Podcast · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 210K views on this topicWade believes that children might be more prone to hallucinations or seeing things because they lack fully developed filters for reality.
“it's something about it like a kid's brain it's easier for them to see those things or to almost hallucinate as a child because maybe you just don't have as much of a grip on your own reality as you think you do as a kid”
Distractible Podcast · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 210K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.