179 - The Memory Illusion - Julia Shaw
You Are Not So Smart
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Psychedelic Memory
People intuitively feel like they do take in everything. And if you have a memory, it's just that thing that happened. So what this teaches us is that photographic memory has been totally blown out of proportion. It's not actually something that adults really seem to have at all. The closest we get is sort of really, really good memory. But even that's never perfect.
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