Posted: Dec 30, 2017 12:39 pm
SpeedOfSound wrote:...
To make a measure of 'fleeting'; let's see.
My memories are not completely trustworthy for one. They tend to get edits on viewing. There's that.
It depends on whether you mean short term memories or long term, and how long it's been since the event in question.
Thus, a short term memory is completely untrustworthy in the long term, whereas a long term memory is relatively stable (but not competely reliable.
Next they are untrustworthy in that they imply a fixed 'me'. Like a solid ship sailing through life. I attach the 'Michael' tag to the hull of the ship. But I just imagine this sort of thing. Not that it don't exist. Just like there are trees in the world there is a singular form called Michael that probabilistically hovers around a bag of proteins and blueprints for about one hundred years. 24463 days thus far.
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It doesn't matter that your cells (including brain neurons and their synapses) are constantly dying and being replaced the long term memories usually survive, because long term memories consist of duplicated (paralleled-up) neural connections, that survive the loss of individual ones. f course, they don't survive forever, and you sometimes forget even long-term memories, especially when you're old.