05-08-2014, 09:06 PM
The whole area of cognition (memories, thinking, beliefs, etc) is a really interesting field of study.
Imagine being bombarded with billions of sensory information and we pick up on a few then encode that as our memory. How do we select what we pick up? Our beliefs, emotions, world views, etc.,. What happens to the rest of the sensory info? It's stored in the unconscious mind.
When we recall memory, we're effectively re-writing our memories each time we recall them. How do we rewrite our memory? Same thing - our beliefs, world views, emotions, our mood states, etc. Memory is therefore a very fluid thing but since distortions might be more consistent over a lifetime it's not like we dramatically change the memory.
Imagine being bombarded with billions of sensory information and we pick up on a few then encode that as our memory. How do we select what we pick up? Our beliefs, emotions, world views, etc.,. What happens to the rest of the sensory info? It's stored in the unconscious mind.
When we recall memory, we're effectively re-writing our memories each time we recall them. How do we rewrite our memory? Same thing - our beliefs, world views, emotions, our mood states, etc. Memory is therefore a very fluid thing but since distortions might be more consistent over a lifetime it's not like we dramatically change the memory.