How Is a Memory Stored Inside Your Squishy Brain?

but what about people who have an eidetic memory?

That's something I never considered about therapy before! Wow. That's actually quite powerful to think about… or remember about 😉

I think this is the reason my memory is so good – I'm way too emotional. And the way my memories are emotionally charged causes me to seek to replay them all the time.

really great video yall!

When I'm coming out of the shower, I often ask myself :
-Wait. Did I actually rince my body after soaping myself ? I don't remember it.

the music is too loud and very distracting. speech is too fast.

Would love share my gratitude to your channel, it really helped me change my life and expand my imagination and change my perspective, been a follower for many years and shared it to multiple friend and kids i teach and also their parents!!!!
Keep up the enlightenment and good work Kurz! ❤❤

My brain is weird. I don't remember episodically. There are a few snapshots, but that's about it.

My main memory works on emotional association towards specific sensory inputs. No memory gets attached to the association, it just forms one day and sticks.

I've also found that while I struggle to remember specific events and facts from memory, I can retain facts so long as I put logical reasoning behind it. That is to say, instead of remembering the fact itself, I teach myself how to conclude the fact based on reasoning.

What about our own names and facts about ourselves and the world that will likely never change inside us? Why do those memories not change over time?

Not sure if it's the reason, but during a good chunk of my studies at university i had just 4-5h sleep a night during week days. My whole memory feels like it's foggy. So many events that i know where and when they happened and yet it feels like i wasn't there, cause i can't really remember going through them

This is why you should never trust your memory

"Forever" does not apply to anything human.

The thing I hate most about the brain is that it is constantly doing some of the most complicated physics problems, but if you put the most basic physics problem in front of me, it looks like gibberish and is basically impossible to solve

came for the video, stayed for the soundtrack

This was beautiful, please keep making videos like this forever ❤

ground news a fake

So witness testimonies aren't reliable?

Huuuuuh who could've knoooown… 🙄

Lost like tears in the rain, but I guess if you see C-beams glitter near the Tannhauser Gate, you will remember.

I liked because you said my brain was weird madness….I've never felt so understood😅

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My brain can come up with examples of arbitary things much more complex than itself. I tried and failed to define a temporaly bounded criteria for meaningfulness such that my own brain could by definition be the most complex meaningful thing within such bounds, but I failed to find a definition where my brains own encoding and processing of information could by definition be greater than information stored outside my brain (ie: written down or made available later).

Which is weird, right? Surely memories are in some sense superior to tool-based recall? Except that both take time, and processing of memories itself takes time. A less complex process that would have the same outcome would do just as well.

From that argument, I suppose the complexity of human brain in itself is not meaningful. And because more complex, meaningless things exist, the intuitively correct sounding argument that at least from our perspective our own brain is the most complex thing in the universe doesn’t seem to hold. We don’t actually profit from that complexity, it just happens to be necessary for our brains to function as they do. If a less complex thing could plausibly do as well, why should one place any value in the complexity itself?

It’s said that every time you recall a memory, it degrades

The main thing I learned in this video is that theres a section in my brain called the Konfuzgesagt that stores the Kurzgesagt videos I do not understand… perfect.

Meditations loosens those connections to "help" them reshape and reform 🙂 When ya old, new connections are more difficult to form, meditation can "force" em to loosen so that you can, indeed, teach an old dog new tricks 😉