Comments on: Earliest Memories https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/earliest-memories/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Thomas Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/earliest-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-220716 Thomas Jones Tue, 24 May 2011 15:23:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24911#comment-220716 It is too easy by half to compare our memory to a computer and a hard drive. The process of memory is just that, a process — influenced by a wide range of feelings, speculations and presuppositions. So we shouldn’t be surprised to find out that memories at any age are mutable. It is an illusion that they are any more than a fraction of what the “truth” is (at least how American culture wants to define truth). A quick read on this is The Invisible Gorilla, by Chabis and Simons.

]]> By: Bruce Charlton https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/earliest-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-218611 Bruce Charlton Sun, 22 May 2011 18:08:50 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24911#comment-218611 Memories of photos are memories of photos. If there ever was a memory of the event it will be written-over by the photo.

The modern era is characterized by the memory hole — the displacement of the past by today’s interpretation of the past — not by technologically enhanced actual memories.

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