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Charan Ranganath: belief

25 May 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

“I could go, this idea of breaking up our continuous experience into these discrete events, I think was a major discovery.”

— Charan Ranganath

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Speaker
Charan Ranganath
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 May 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Mm-hmm. The discovery that the act of remembering can change the memory, it can strengthen it, but it can also distort it if you get misinformation at the time. And it can also strengthen or weaken other memories that you didn’t even recall. So just this whole idea of memory as an ecosystem I think was a big discovery. I could go, this idea of breaking up our continuous experience into these discrete events, I think was a major discovery. So the discreetness of our encoding of events?…

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