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Love how Lovecraft's writing is weirdly relevant to today's interconnected world. If he was born today he would probably be working on pattern recognition and machine learning to "piece together the dissociated knowledge to open up terrifying vistas of reality".
Or writing angry posts on StormFront.
This is an interesting idea, but how did he decide which one from 86,400 sec in a day that's worth to keep?
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Not clear what you lose. Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video, and you can choose not to watch the video. All I think you lose is the time you spend taking the video. But if the moments you spend taking the video are just moments you would spend simply observing, the difference is very little.
> Your brain probably still has whatever memory of these moments it would have without the video I don't have a citation now, but there were studies done that suggest you actually don't have reliable memories of past events; the brain actually recomputes parts of them based on what you know now, thus sometimes making false memories.
Instead, the theory states, memory recall is a rapid-fire, iterative process of "generating" details of a memory, then checking whether it matches the original. If it does, then the detail is 'recalled' and the process moves onto other details, in this way hopefully producing a reasonable reproduction of the original memory. There is some experimental evidence of this theory, but as far as I understand it, the theory is not entirely accepted. In my opinion, it's probably part of the story but not all, perhaps as an 'error correction' mechanism that fills in gaps but not for producing the entire memory.
What you're referring to about false memories is somewhat different and much better accepted. There's a lot of evidence that shows that memory recall is a destructive process: after recall, a memory becomes labile and must be reconsolidated into long-term storage. Essentially, recalling a memory destroys it and it must be re-encoded as a new memory. In that time while it is labile, details can be added or removed and changes can creep into it from your own thoughts or the suggestions of others. The changed version is usually indistinguishable from the original.
The key line for me was at the end, when he says "trying to make the best movie possible is making me live the best life possible". If this is nothing but a trick to make one more introspective and aware of one's own life, I applaud it.
Meditating is one of the most introspective activities, but might not make the best film. If people make a 1 second film for themselves then I think this could have a really positive impact.
If instead people make films for others then this might not be very positive because you are living out entertainment for someone else.
I know there are counterexamples. But for those things, you'd probably want to take a longer video anyway. What kind of events is a 1-second video the best way to capture, anyway?
I'm surprised no one has linked to this: http://noahkalina.com/36/44#1 He's been taking pictures every day since 2000.
Someone just did.