Comments on Thondom Raughts: People really don't remember anything or is it jus...

I was trying to see if your memory was biased by a...

2008-06-11T20:59:00.000+05:30

I was trying to see if your memory was biased by any additional inputs like photos. I guess it might have been special for me too but I will never know :)

No I dont :-D
Infact most of her pics I have wi...

2008-06-11T20:16:00.000+05:30

No I dont :-D
Infact most of her pics I have with me are post-school days!
Strange I know, but thats why childhood is always special.

@cris - Yes I understand the feelings and emotions...

2008-06-05T22:57:00.000+05:30

@cris - Yes I understand the feelings and emotions part of memories. When I hear some songs I feel some particular emotion which I can't describe but which will reoccur the next time I hear the song. Here I am not actually perceiving anything consciously, rather the emotion is triggered outside of my consciousness and the emotion is perceived by my consciousness.
I still am not clear about the images part. But it is interesting to note that you remember the persons face as it was when she was 10. Very interesting. Do you have a photo of her at 10 that you have frequent access to?

It is not always a person or object or a physical ...

2008-06-05T19:16:00.000+05:30

It is not always a person or object or a physical entity people keep in their memory. There are incidents and there are feelings that connect to the incidents.
And again it neednt be significant incidents. I for one, remember the nothing-important-about-them normal days more than others.

About images and identifying them... I can tell you its not the case with everyone as you have described, cause I have an image when I close my mind and think about a person or an incident. I dont know the rules of recording these images. For eg, when I think of my best friend, its her 10-year old face that still comes to my mind.

Some things are just etched in your mind, no one directs it to be that way.

so what does somebody mean when they say that they...

2007-12-12T19:21:00.000+05:30

so what does somebody mean when they say that they remember somebody? Is it the description of the person? Probably not. Right. I can describe a red ball in as much as two or three sentences. But what about a person. Now what about incidences? When people remember incidences - is it just the descriptions of the events that they remember. If that is the case then you can induce incorrect recollection by suggestion, Can't you?
Probably it is like pattern recognition and memory is like a stored mask. On seeing the object again or when triggered with the right stimulus your mask processes the visual or non-visual stimulus to create a feeling of recollection of the object/incident.

I guess 'remember' as in being able to visualise a...

2007-12-12T18:31:00.000+05:30

I guess 'remember' as in being able to visualise as you have explained is not what 'People'(atleast I) generally mean when they say remember. It would more about recollecting part/whole of an incident,some/whole of the attributes of a person/, some or whole of the feelings evoked in you in a situation in the past , and many such. When I say that I remember my father telling me stories at bedtime when I was kid , I just mean that I can recollect some of such incidents and some of the conversations involved - and not necessarily that I can visualise the incident. : )