I liked the decorative office placards adorning Posit Science’s San Franscisco HQ today.
And then, this blew my mind:
“The safest memories are those you never remember.”
“Memories are reshaped and rewritten every time we recall an event… The memory exists not as a file in our brain but only as the most recent rewrite of a scenario. Every memoir is fabricated, and the past is nothing more than our last retelling of it. Archival memory data is mixed with whatever new information helps shape the way we think—and feel—about it. Memory is what you are now. Not in pictures, not in recordings. Your memory is who you are now.”
More from Daniela Schiller’s research here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/9420934610
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