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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Complexity of Memory
We're remembering context, right? So with every memory, there's going to be context that you store away. You might know that it must have happened before this because you hadn't yet known about that or you might know that a particular person was there and you didn't yet know that person before such and such a time. And so in that context of retrieval that that information gets added or gets reclassified. It's not that it has a timestamp. It's that one memory is sort of connected to all these other memories and we can reconstruct when it must have been. Exactly. But we certainly don't have a timestamp and mostly we're terrible at remembering when things happen,. which,
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