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Charan Ranganath

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3063 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

I think there's also something about attachment that's just so crucial that drives, again, these things that we want to remember and that gives us that longing sometimes. Sometimes it's also not just about the heartbreak. but about the positive aspects of it, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

I think there's also something about attachment that's just so crucial that drives, again, these things that we want to remember and that gives us that longing sometimes. Sometimes it's also not just about the heartbreak. but about the positive aspects of it, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Because the loss comes from not only the fact that the relationship is over, but you had all of these good things before that you can now see in a new light, right? And so one of the things that I found from my clinical background that really, I think, gave me a different perspective on memory is so much of the therapy process was guided towards reframing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Because the loss comes from not only the fact that the relationship is over, but you had all of these good things before that you can now see in a new light, right? And so one of the things that I found from my clinical background that really, I think, gave me a different perspective on memory is so much of the therapy process was guided towards reframing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Because the loss comes from not only the fact that the relationship is over, but you had all of these good things before that you can now see in a new light, right? And so one of the things that I found from my clinical background that really, I think, gave me a different perspective on memory is so much of the therapy process was guided towards reframing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

and getting people to look at the past in a different way, not by imposing, changing people's memories or not by imposing an interpretation, but just offering a different perspective and maybe one that's kind of more optimized towards learning and appreciation maybe or gratitude, whatever it is, right? That gives you a way of taking, I think you said it in the beginning, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

and getting people to look at the past in a different way, not by imposing, changing people's memories or not by imposing an interpretation, but just offering a different perspective and maybe one that's kind of more optimized towards learning and appreciation maybe or gratitude, whatever it is, right? That gives you a way of taking, I think you said it in the beginning, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

and getting people to look at the past in a different way, not by imposing, changing people's memories or not by imposing an interpretation, but just offering a different perspective and maybe one that's kind of more optimized towards learning and appreciation maybe or gratitude, whatever it is, right? That gives you a way of taking, I think you said it in the beginning, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Where you can have this kind of like dark experiences and you can use it as training data to, you know, grow in new ways, but it's hard. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Where you can have this kind of like dark experiences and you can use it as training data to, you know, grow in new ways, but it's hard. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Where you can have this kind of like dark experiences and you can use it as training data to, you know, grow in new ways, but it's hard. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So you don't believe that an owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart? You think an owner of a broken heart is better than the owner of a lonely heart?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So you don't believe that an owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart? You think an owner of a broken heart is better than the owner of a lonely heart?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

So you don't believe that an owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart? You think an owner of a broken heart is better than the owner of a lonely heart?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Well, you know, it's funny because it's like after I turned 50, I think of death all the time. Like, I just think that, you know, I'm in like, I probably, I have fewer, probably a fewer years ahead of me than I have behind me. Right. So you think about, I think about one thing, which is what are the memories that I want to carry with me for the next period of time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Well, you know, it's funny because it's like after I turned 50, I think of death all the time. Like, I just think that, you know, I'm in like, I probably, I have fewer, probably a fewer years ahead of me than I have behind me. Right. So you think about, I think about one thing, which is what are the memories that I want to carry with me for the next period of time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Well, you know, it's funny because it's like after I turned 50, I think of death all the time. Like, I just think that, you know, I'm in like, I probably, I have fewer, probably a fewer years ahead of me than I have behind me. Right. So you think about, I think about one thing, which is what are the memories that I want to carry with me for the next period of time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And also about like, just the fact that everything around me could be, you know, I know more people who are, you dying for various reasons. I'm not lots, I'm not that old, right? But it's something I think about a lot, and I'm reminded of how I talked to somebody who's a Buddhist, and I was like, the whole idea of Buddhism is renouncing attachments.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And also about like, just the fact that everything around me could be, you know, I know more people who are, you dying for various reasons. I'm not lots, I'm not that old, right? But it's something I think about a lot, and I'm reminded of how I talked to somebody who's a Buddhist, and I was like, the whole idea of Buddhism is renouncing attachments.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And also about like, just the fact that everything around me could be, you know, I know more people who are, you dying for various reasons. I'm not lots, I'm not that old, right? But it's something I think about a lot, and I'm reminded of how I talked to somebody who's a Buddhist, and I was like, the whole idea of Buddhism is renouncing attachments.