The Importance of Memory

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Tom Kenyon: We are terrible at remembering past events vividly and our very first past event. What is your earliest memory of a national or world event? I often think I remember the first moon landing, although I'm probably conflating my actual memories of Apollo 16 and 17 with later TV documentaries of Apollo 11. You just have to worry about the footnotes and the details in these questions.

Welcome to the May 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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