🧵 Memory
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:27:23 UTC No. 16250469
Why do most people forget most everything before three or four years of age? I have like three snippets of memory before I was two and have talked to one dude that swears he can’t remember shit before eleven. Does this keep happening? Will we forget our mothers if we live long enough? How’s is this, /sci/?
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:43:49 UTC No. 16250754
Based Worf poster
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:45:47 UTC No. 16250759
>>16250469
your friend was molested, anon.
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:04:16 UTC No. 16251431
>>16250469
>one dude that swears he can’t remember shit before eleven
how is that even possible. Brain damage right there.
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:38:31 UTC No. 16251768
>>16251431
That’s what I’m asking you smarties. There’s in between but the extreme spread, that I know of, is me falling down the stairs before I could walk and him not remembering elementary school. He is Japanese and doing well btw. Why do we forget like this and when does it stop?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:01:50 UTC No. 16251973
>>16250469
brain has to develop the parts that remember shit, or something. that guy probably has brain damage though. I can remember a few things from when I was two, more from when I was three, and maybe a few months into being 4 my eidetic memory kicked in and it's vivid from there.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:22:01 UTC No. 16252047
That's called infantile amnesia. It's very strange, and science doesn't have a great answer for why it exists.
It gets even weirder when you consider that children who are younger than 3 can remember things that happened in their past, but once they hit age 3, those memories get erased.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:07:36 UTC No. 16252131
>>16250469
Imagine the meocortex as a codec that compressess everything that's happening. You only save the compressed stream, not the raw data, because nobody has the harddrive for that. But then you grow into an adult, and you can no longer read or write those files, as your neocortex shuts down, so you only take notes of what you may need later.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:40:38 UTC No. 16252557
You get out from your mother's pussy and then spend months sucking her tits.
When you grow up it would be embarrassing to remember all that.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:47:20 UTC No. 16253324
>>16252047
Weird.
>>16252131
>babies are smart.
>>16252557
Definitely blocking that out.
>>16250759
Maybe we all were.
>>16251973
>eidectic
How’s that work if you get super drunk?
I wonder if drunk amnesia and infantile are related to similar brain stuff.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:50:34 UTC No. 16254554
>>16250469
its that you dont consciously experience it in the first place
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:27:55 UTC No. 16254797
>>16250469
memories aren't pictures in the brain, they are functions with a single parameter: you substitute your consciousness and you get the picture with you in it somewhere. children don't have a persistent enough consciousness to link moments together, and as such those memories do not have a parameter you can supply.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:59:33 UTC No. 16256237
>>16254554
Maybe that is why the Talmud allows it.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:12:14 UTC No. 16256251
>>16251768
>Why do we forget like this and when does it stop?
I see you point, thank you. I think you're asking leading-edge scientific questions and no one will be able to give you answers which have not yet been found.