🧠The Memory of Illusion, @drjuliashaw (2016)
👁️Great book to have a better understanding on how memory works, the misconceptions that we have about all the processes involved in memory and how we are all able to have false memories. Also it useful for the implications this all meta-memory studies can have in our lives.
✒️Interesting book! I already had some background on this subject bacause I did a course in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona about the Psychology of memory and the implications it has in language, so it was after "chapter 6. Why are we so overconfident in our memories" that I really got interested in the new information that I learned from Dr.Shaw.
Quotes:
🖋️"MEMORIES form the bedrocks of our IDENTITIES" (Introduction, YOU-NESS and why identity and memory are inherently linked)
🖋️"It's strange to think that the years that are possibly our most formative are also those which we remember the least" (Chapter 1. Why some of our childhood memories are impossible)
🖋️"Our memories are built to forget. Forgetting is a beautiful mechanism that trims down our neuronal connections to make our brains more efficient at storung only the information that is most important to us" (Ch.5 Why no one has infallible memory)
🖋️"We no longer have full ownership of events in our lives, we are instead living in a time of intense TRANSACTIVE memory" = memories that are collectively formed, updated, STORED (Ch.8 Why media moulds our memory)
🖋️"Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. [...] The best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now."