Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

Originally Posted by sivason

I got a little confused as far as Sageous commenting on recalling true and current data, and in other places saying episodic memory was not the point. We all write here for fun and sharing, and we all sometimes start up an intellectual path only to back up and try to explain ourselves in a way that may seem contradictory. Had he been composing a paper which could be edited before release, no confliction would appear (and there may have been none here, I just got a little confused between posts).

What I am saying is that I think we are on the same page as far as the understanding of a sleeping body being far more important than details.

I wouldn't be me if I didn't contradict myself now and then!

Though I agree we're all on the same page, at least until I come up with some new contradictory thought, this seemed important enough to mention:

I don't consider thinking of your sleeping body as retrieving an episodic memory, or even retrieving a memory at all. Yes, your sleeping body represents "true and current data," and in a sense you are creating an episodic memory simply by considering it, but at the moment of doing so you are not recalling it but confirming something that is going on right now, in reality. That doesn't seem contadictory to me... but then it might only make sense inside my addled head, I suppose!