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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is Memory a Pattern Reconstruction System?
The brain stores a kind of recipe for an event and then it uses that recipe to reconstruct the neural activity that was, that did occur when the event was originally perceived and encoded. It's kind of like an index, which is used to retrieve the various details and combine them in the particular configuration or the particular pattern that they were in when they were first encoded. And so understanding memory as a kind of pattern reconstruction system actually makes sense of a lot of kind of how it works and then how it can be used to imagine the future.
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