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11 Implicit Memory: The Thing That's Running Your Life

The Place We Find Ourselves

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The Importance of Implicit Memory

The idea in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was that you could find every memory for Joel Barish, the character played by Jim Carrey. That's not how memory works; there are no storage folders or bins. The main point I'm wanting to make today is that implicit memory runs your life. And it is far more important when we actually live our lives than explicit memory.

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