Virginia Hughes has an article at National Geographic talking about the possibility of using electrical shocks to erase memories. The shocks depend on upon the fact that every time we recall a memory, we essentially rewrite it. Due to this constant rewriting, I'm not even sure it's accurate to say we have long term memories, … Continue reading Memories of memories of memories…
Day: December 23, 2013
Big Gods: An interesting read
A while back, I read Ara Norenzayan's book, 'Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict'. I'm posting this review somewhat from memory, but I've had a couple of conversations about it lately and I think it might be good to move the discussion here. In the book, Norenzayan asks an interesting question. How did … Continue reading Big Gods: An interesting read
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