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This piece of news talked about memories and our ability to remember, and the way they both make the bases of who we are.
It said that memory is ‘our coherence, our reason, our feeling and even aour action’, and that it makes us know who we are as a person.
It also says that there’s a distinction between “semantic memory” and “autobiographical memory”: The first one is simply the events memory, it’s about actions, places and dates, it’s just a memory for facts. The second one includes sensory details, and it allows us to make a narrative about the happenings of our own lives.
Memories are mental reconstructions, nifty multimedia collages of how things were, but both kinds of memories are susceptible to distortion. Even, if conditions are set up correctly, we could remember something that never happened. It makes memories unreliable, even if they seem to be vivids. It’s because memories are influenced by the needs of the self, as the coherence and ego.
There are two forces that influence the memory creation, and while the ‘force of correspondence’ makes us want to stick to the facts, the ‘force of coherence’ wants to tell a good story.
Emotions can twist our memories too: If our emotions change, so do our memories.
It also says that when we are able to encode our experience in words, it becomes much easier to put it together into a memory, and we should value memory as a means for endlessly rewriting the self.
It strangely reminds me Psychology and Life of Philiph and Zimbardo :O Wahahahhaha :)
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