Dr James Mannion
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1,455 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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The brain does not archive information.
So again, you know, all of those all of those diagrams that we see of arrows and little bits of data going into the eye and like this like long term memory as though it's some some sort of like storage unit.
The brain does not archive information.
Memory consolidates what matters for future predicted benefits to well being and survival.
Reconstructing experiences from emotionally tagged fragments and current context.
Can you just like I know that Nick talks a lot about this in in his book as well, this this idea of like the the memory we don't remember what happens?
Memory is a reconstruction process.
We sort of reconstruct things when we think that we're remembering them, we're sort of rebuilding them from some in and then you say emotionally tagged.
fragment.
Talk talk to us about that.
But Yeah, I I struggled with that as I was reading Nick's books.
I was like, so but what uh like what about when you like you the you you remember facts, people do remember facts.
There are people who remember pi to ten thousand units or whatever, ten thousand digits.
Like people can remember
information as well as I I I I struggled with that a bit.
I can see that your mind emotionally charged, but go on, Kate.
So um But but then there are also there there's also like Kate was saying, she remembers the lines still, and there is so there is information.
There is semantic meaning, there is information, there's data sort of that comes with that emotional package, isn't there?
I don't think that it's
Yeah.
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