memory

"We try to repeat those experiences that we remember with pleasure and pride, and we try to avoid repeating those that we remember with embarrassment and regret. The trouble is that we often don't remember them correctly. Remembering an experience feels a lot like opening a drawer and retrieving a story that was filed away on the day it was written. That feeling is one of our mind's most sophisticated illusions. Memory is not a dutiful scribe that keeps a complete transcript of our experiences, but a sophisticated editor that clips and saves key elements of an experience and then uses these elements to rewrite the story each time we ask to reread it. The clip-and-save method usually works pretty well because the editor usually has a keen sense of which elements are essential and which are disposable. Alas, as keen as its editorial skills may be, memory does have a few quirks that cause it to misrepresent the past and hence causes us to incorrectly imagine the future. " - Daniel Gilbert

memory is defined as:

a memorial

something remembered

an electronic memory device

all that a individual can remember

Capacity for storing information.

the fact of being remembered; remembrance

a combination of instinct and intuition

The act or an instance of remembering; recollection.

The power of retaining and recalling past experience.

A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval.

The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.

The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.

The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.

Some thought or emotion brought to consciousness from the subconscious.

Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animal's experience.

The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a individual or group of individuals.

The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame.

The reach and positiveness with which a individual can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past.

Memory is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes recollection.

Memory is a complicated process, only partly understood. Research suggests that the qualities of a memory do not in and of themselves provide a reliable way to determine accuracy. For example, a vivid and detailed memory may be based upon inaccurate reconstruction of facts, or largely self-created impressions that appear to have actually occurred. Likewise, continuity of memory is no guarantee of truth, and disruption of memory is no guarantee of falsity. Finally, memory is believed to be a reconstructed phenomenon, and so it can often be strongly influenced by expectation (one's own or other people's), emotions, the implied beliefs of others, inappropriate interpretation, or desired outcome.

déjà vu

déjà vu is an illusion, a vivid mental trick played by the mind on itself.

You walk into a charming beautiful garden.

Suddenly, you are certain, absolutely positive, you have been in that exact spot doing the exact same thing before.

There is a puzzling but very strong feeling of familiarity.

What is really happening is your mind is processing the experience along several neural pathways at once.

déjà vu is a neurological anomaly related to improperly timed synapses firings resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory of previous experience coupled with an inability to grasp any details of the underlying memory of that experience.

Improperly filed information meets in the mind's higher processing centers as a time overlapping incident.

It is as if one series of messages have taken a shortcut and ziped into memory first. When others identical messages arrive, the mind announces, accurately, that the new memories are replicas of previous memoriess.

To the mind, this means you have been here and done this before.

70% of people say they have had a déjà vu experience.

Is it possible to consciously delete existing memory?

People that have had extremely traumatic experiences that do not fit in to that person's typical understanding of reality seem to be able to delete the memory of the actual experience.

Although they are able to consciously forget the actual memory, or perhaps mask or wall up the memory, they are unable to mask to their inner most selves, the emotional response that occurs when similar events take place that their subconscious mind recognizes and categorizes as familiar to past events.

If it is possible to consciously delete existing memory - how would that individual ever know that memories had been deleted?

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