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AMA | May 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Importance of Memory

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.

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