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How Everyday Knowledge Accumulates
- Matt quizzes friends with random facts to show how everyday knowledge accumulates.
- He traces facts to deliberate reading, TV, work experience, and chance encounters.
Memories Are Fragmented Assemblies
- Memories are fuzzy and composed of many small sensory fragments rather than a single discrete record.
- Those secondary and tertiary details combine into a felt sense of an event, not a perfect picture.
Childhood Detail Became Adult Fact
- Matt recalls a childhood memory (swallowing a quarter) and using sun position to deduce gazebo orientation.
- Small sensory details later yielded factual conclusions he couldn't have known then.