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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Memory Masters destroying the last of their childhood memories so they can add another 80,000 digits of pi to their mind palace.

contextMemory Mastery is a technique where you force your brain to remember random information by formatting it in a certain way, some people have gone on to use this trick to memorize millions of digits of pi. A study recently came out confirming that every time you make a new memory it destroys an old one, so every time someone makes a "memory palace" it comes at the cost of older memories, such as in childhood.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A study recently came out confirming that every time you make a new memory it destroys an old one

If that was true, babies would forget their first memory every time they remember their second memory. There's no way it's true. It might be partly true, but it can't be completely true.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well the way memory works is that it allocates certain clusters of neurons to storing information. When you're young there's a lot of blank space that you can store stuff in but as you get older you start having to pick and choose as more and more brain space gets taken up.

Here's a cool video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5trRLX7PQY Fun fact: because of how memories are formed in chains you can tell if you're on the precipice of forgetting something if you try to recall it and you start trailing into another memory. You can experience this for yourself by trying to recall the beat of an old song and note when it starts morphing into the beat of a newer song. It's also worth noting that every time you recall a memory you destroy the original and rewrite it, bringing it back to the top. That little asshole is like 90% of the reason why our memories suck so much shit and are so prone to outside manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't happen to have that study close at hand?

I often nerd into new hobbies and learn new stuff. I also don't feel like I remember as much of my early childhood as people around me does.

I have no idéa if this is what's happening to me, but it'd be interesting to read about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sorry couldn't find it and google is being as fucking useless as always 😔

EDIT: Found it, it was a youtube video https://youtu.be/diyoTo3Co08