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Right, following on from this thread about #IntrusuveThoughts, a lot of people have commented about embarrassing memories that pop up out of the blue and make them cringe all over again.
That's a different, if related, phenomenon. Here's my understanding of why it happens
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That's a different, if related, phenomenon. Here's my understanding of why it happens
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First and foremost, it's important to recognise that the fundamentals of the human brain's memory system were laid down looooong ago. Before we were even human. Consciousness and rational thought are far more recent developments, evolutionary-speaking
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One upshot of this is that our memory system is often the result of new software running on old hardware.
A lot of the brain is like this, in fairness, and it causes a lot of issues. I *may* have written a book all about it
amazon.co.uk/Idiot-Brain-Ne…
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A lot of the brain is like this, in fairness, and it causes a lot of issues. I *may* have written a book all about it
amazon.co.uk/Idiot-Brain-Ne…
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