From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 20:08:43 MDT
At 09:31 AM 7/1/03 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>> Also can memorys be selectively reactivated. I have heard stories of
>> old
>> Memories long thought lost being reactivated during brain surgury. If
>> so how
>> does one go about developing a map?
>AFAIK, those memories turn out to be complete fabrications, and are an
>excellent example of just how little we remember, and how much our brain
>fills in the gaps with pure bullshit.
AFAIK, *all* memories turn out to be fabrications, not quite compiled from
pure bullshit but certainly reconstituted each time they're recalled, and
shaded differently according to the context of recall and the cumulative
history of their past recall/reconstruction. You never step into the same
memory twice.
Damien Broderick
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