Not all memories: some don’t . Except for those two instances, I have never, ever remembered something wrong in my life. Either I know or I don’t. I don’t want to get into a discussion on this: some people’s brains work in subtly different ways from others. In my case, I never remember stuff wrong. When I’m making shit up or taking a guess, I actually know it, I know there’s a gap, a blank. That’s the way it is, period. Sometimes I’m tempted to fill it, but I systematically shy from that, like an instinctive feeling of danger.
Sorry for the harsh tone, it’s just that I remember (heh) having a similar discussion on the TV Tropes fora, and it took me, like, pages to convince them of this, and I wouldn’t replay it. Anyway, what’s the accuracy of my assesment of my own memory have to do with the topic? Plus, you can’t question people’s subjective experiences of their own brain: there’s just no way you can decide the discussion through evidence either way. I could argue that people who thought they read in their books actuall heard the words, or thought them without the intermediary of letters in the paper, or something like that. Such an argument won’t lead anyone anywhere.
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Hey, that’s an interesting topic too: what if brainscanning or brain interfaces allow for an objective understanding of what happens inside? What if some “gifted” people have brains that have a functioning so far from the norm it’s indecipherable for machines (at least until they come up with a better algorythm)?
It’d certainly help improving a lot of stuff, understanding how people think.
Not all memories: some don’t . Except for those two instances, I have never, ever remembered something wrong in my life. Either I know or I don’t. I don’t want to get into a discussion on this: some people’s brains work in subtly different ways from others. In my case, I never remember stuff wrong. When I’m making shit up or taking a guess, I actually know it, I know there’s a gap, a blank. That’s the way it is, period. Sometimes I’m tempted to fill it, but I systematically shy from that, like an instinctive feeling of danger.
Sorry for the harsh tone, it’s just that I remember (heh) having a similar discussion on the TV Tropes fora, and it took me, like, pages to convince them of this, and I wouldn’t replay it. Anyway, what’s the accuracy of my assesment of my own memory have to do with the topic? Plus, you can’t question people’s subjective experiences of their own brain: there’s just no way you can decide the discussion through evidence either way. I could argue that people who thought they read in their books actuall heard the words, or thought them without the intermediary of letters in the paper, or something like that. Such an argument won’t lead anyone anywhere.
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Hey, that’s an interesting topic too: what if brainscanning or brain interfaces allow for an objective understanding of what happens inside? What if some “gifted” people have brains that have a functioning so far from the norm it’s indecipherable for machines (at least until they come up with a better algorythm)?
It’d certainly help improving a lot of stuff, understanding how people think.