Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
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Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#2Isn't it simply because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning ?
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#3Another item in the long list of obvious stuff so called experts in intelligence purport not to know.
simple answer you wont get from her majesties propoganda channel.
"memory" is a learnt skill. just like everything else, it takes a few years to learn it.
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#4Another item in the long list of obvious stuff so called experts in intelligence purport not to know. simple answer you wont get from her majesties propoganda channel. "memory" is a learnt skill. just like everything else, it takes a few years to learn it.
Not everything is a learned skill, and you have absolutely nothing to base that opinion on other than obviously loathing those pesky experts and... the BBC?
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#5The thing I find most interesting about childhood amnesia is that that, despite this headline, it's not that we don't form early memories. We do form them, and then as we get older we forget them again.
If you ask a 5-year-old child, they will accurately remember things that happened to them when they were 2. Then they gradually forget, and at 11, the early memories are completely lost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia#Fading_memor...
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#6I read recently that our memories are us recalling the last time we remembered it. They did a study which showed those that intoduced errors in their memories later recalled them as facts the next time.
So my thought is that childhood amnesia could be down to children living in the moment and simply don't spend time recalling past events. Only later do we consider events as being past, present and future.
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#7The thing I find most interesting about childhood amnesia is that that, despite this headline, it's not that we don't form early memories. We do form them, and then as we get older we forget them again. If you ask a 5-year-old child, they will accurately remember things that happened to them when they were 2. Then they gradually forget, and at 11, the early memories are completely lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
Things learnt that early simply dont have value later on, that's how I would see it from the body's perspective.
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#8Another item in the long list of obvious stuff so called experts in intelligence purport not to know. simple answer you wont get from her majesties propoganda channel. "memory" is a learnt skill. just like everything else, it takes a few years to learn it.
Not everything is a learned skill, and you have absolutely nothing to base that opinion on other than obviously loathing those pesky experts and... the BBC?
no, i loath the "experts" rolled out by the bbc as experts.
that memory is something we learn is not a new thing (technicallly the skill of forgetting, which is where autism comes from), the second post even pointed out synaptic pruning.
its not just known to be a learnt skill, we know the exact biologic process by which it manifests itself.
the "experts" are the ones building the ai that will take all your jobs. and you wont find them giving interviews on the beeg.
Re: Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
#9I read recently that our memories are us recalling the last time we remembered it. They did a study which showed those that intoduced errors in their memories later recalled them as facts the next time. So my thought is that childhood amnesia could be down to children living in the moment and simply don't spend time recalling past events. Only later do we consider events as being past, present and future.
They absolutely do though. I only see my nieces and nephews a few times a year, and they always remind me of things we did the last time I visited.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everything is a learned skill, and you have absolutely nothing to base that opinion on other than obviously loathing those pesky experts and... the BBC?
no, i loath the "experts" rolled out by the bbc as experts. that memory is something we learn is not a new thing (technicallly the skill of forgetting, which is where autism comes from), the second post even pointed out synaptic pruning. its not just known to be a learnt skill, we know the exact biologic process by which it manifests itself. the "experts" are the ones building the ai that will take all your jobs. and…
You speak as if you know quite a bit about this subject. I'm curious, what makes you an expert rather than an "expert"?