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  • scarabin5

    Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories

    https://aeon.co/essays/your-brai…

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    • amazing article, thanks for sharing!monospaced
    • so my memory what i'm trying so hard to destroy in the past 33 years isn't in my brain. goodsted
    • and what can Mr. Robert Epstein say about that I can still draw my grandfather who died in '95 without any reference photo?sted
    • Or remember art pieces what i have only seen once?sted
    • very cool! I was skeptical at first but it won me over.sarahfailin
    • i think the point is that it does but not in the way we think it does ie like a computer_niko
    • they reckon it's in them there cellsset
    • @sted, it means that you are able to "recreate" that memory, which apparently is different from retrieving itmonospaced
    • he seems to be positing that current metaphors fall far short of what actually happens, and that we still have a lot of understanding to doscarabin
    • yeah, like 100 years more of understanding to domonospaced
    • nice article. what was it about again?Fax_Benson
    • @mono you are right and I misunderstood some part of the allegations... after the second reading it's much clearersted
    • A lot of "what"s instead of "that"s in this note thread. It's making me punchy.set
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