What is your earliest consistent memory?
One reason I'm drawn to cognition is that Web and distributed network models reflect aspects of how human memory as we understand today works (or doesn't)! Our brains are tasked to take distributed memory and make them accessible to us.
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Being picked up to look at monkeys in an odd store ..don't remember the stores name but I remember the monkeys.
Photos trigger other memories, but that's the first imprinted on my memory with no pictures.
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Were they toy or real monkeys? That seems very primal either way. So fascinating.
All sensory input of which an individual is capable relates to memory. What we see, hear, taste, touch and especially - smell are intimately linked to memory formation and recollection.
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That is truly fascinating. I'm trying to figure out what kind of odd shop would have monkeys other than specialty pet store? I am positive that would have imprinted strongly on me too.
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A great piece of history for the curious and unusual file! Both as a concept in the store, and your experience of it as a very early memory. The intrigue is why? A personal curiosity and/or a primal response to familiar features in a related species? What do you think?
May 18, 2020 · 4:52 PM UTC
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