Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu...
by coldtea on Sunday October 06, 2019 @12:57PM
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>Think about an actual first-person experience you recently had, though. Do you really see a full and clear image, as if you were looking at a true photo or video? If you really try to parse out the small details, can you say exactly what every shade of color was, how the lighting was, where every single thing was located, everything you heard and smelled? I doubt many people have such an extremely vivid memory.
Nobody has such an extremely vivid memory. We don't even have it for the present moment. But this is not what this is about.
When walking around and seeing things in real life you don't see "where every single thing was located" or what every shade is either. You only do that for things that you focus on. The rest is still visible but a kind of haze. And things on the periphery are lower res.
It's not about being able to see things with real life detail, as if you walk on some reconstructed 100% replica of the world then, and you get to look around, focus on things you didn't focus at the time, get closer and see detail, etc.
It's about being able to see past scenes as visual replay-like reconstructions.
Nobody has such an extremely vivid memory. We don't even have it for the present moment. But this is not what this is about.
When walking around and seeing things in real life you don't see "where every single thing was located" or what every shade is either. You only do that for things that you focus on. The rest is still visible but a kind of haze. And things on the periphery are lower res.
It's not about being able to see things with real life detail, as if you walk on some reconstructed 100% replica of the world then, and you get to look around, focus on things you didn't focus at the time, get closer and see detail, etc.
It's about being able to see past scenes as visual replay-like reconstructions.