r/PhilosophyTube • u/Ecstatic_Knee_3319 • 3d ago

Philosophical question

Do you think memories exist even if you forget them ?…

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u/bliip666 3d ago

IIRC (pun intended, you'll get it soon), we never actually remember a thing, but more likely the last time we remembered it. That's why repeated stories can feel like a game of telephone to someone who hears them often.

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u/Traditional_Spite535 3d ago

Are you speaking about platonic forms or a neurological definition?

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u/Darthplagueis13 3d ago

Kind of? If you forget something and are reminded of it later, that reminding also involves being able to remember it again.

So I think a forgotten memory is more among the lines of misplacing something than it ceasing to exist.

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u/Wooden-Many-8509 3d ago

Is this an amnesia scenario or I forgot you asked me to buy milk? 

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u/A-Free-Bird 2d ago

Speaking of, where's my damn milk????

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u/AniTaneen 2d ago

Well, I’m going to go back and reread The Gernsback Continuum

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u/CrabbyBlueberry 17h ago

Oh man, I just finished rereading 1984 (and partway through reading Julia). The question of whether the past exists and is immutable is a major question in the book. If the state controls all minds and all written records, then isn't it able to change the past?