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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Physiology of Long-Term Memory

There's a difference between what we call semantic memory and episodic memory, which is more like a personal history. We also know that memories can be kind of reinforce and harm each other in the long term or say, inhibit each other. And how are things actually physically encoded? This is not a topic that I've studied in a great deal of detail. My understanding is that things are encoded both locally and in a highly distributed fashion.

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