Series of things we must focus on , sharing thoughts one by one so that its not a long read. To read Session 1-4, scroll below on my wall. SESSION 5: We cant trust our memories Most of us would like to think that we recall past events with accuracy -- but in reality, our memory is highly fallible and subject to a laundry list of biases and errors. Eyewitness testimonials are notoriously unreliable. 25 percent of people could be induced to remember events that never even happened to them. One common error is allowing our view of the past to be colored by our emotions in the present. Just broke up with your boyfriend? Your entire relationship history may start to look pretty grim. Just got a promotion? That grueling, soul-sucking first job suddenly looks like a valuable stepping-stone to bigger and better things. Dont look back in anger -- because your anger, or any other emotion youre experiencing, will change the way you think about the past. One type of memory error that we make -- a memory bug -- is really a product of the fact that in human memory, theres no distinction between storage and retrieval. So when a computer writes something down, it has one laser thats used to store the memory and another laser to retrieve the memory, and those are very distinct processes. In human memory, the distinction between storage and retrieval is not very clear, and this can have very dramatic consequences. ... The act of retrieving a memory can affect the storage. Stay Tuned for Session 6 tomorrow
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:42:04 +0000
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