Post #1445027

2025-12-27 16:28 UTC

@kissane usually *aren't our episodes*. They're either narrative (or narrative frames) received from people around us (or news sources or storybooks or whatever), or they're even more abstract than that, they're just semantic structures *abstracted from* narrative in cases where we haven't even heard the narrative. But we can't actually tell the difference. I'm pretty sure (although I don't have literature to back it up) that we treat episodic traces from our own

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@vivtek@indieweb.social 2025-12-27 16:33

@kissane experiences and those encoded in (already-abstracted) narrative in the exact same way when recalling things. Because our memory is *progressive*. We only remember things as they're needed, and it all comes back in stages. If we don't need to know where siphoning happens in a toilet, we'll never notice that we don't know. Or at least, that we don't know in our brains - we do know in the people around us or in a physical, still-working toilet, for instance.

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@vivtek@indieweb.social 2025-12-27 16:37

@kissane To any academics seeing this - this "aren't-our-episodes" claim is a strong one. I can't back it up, but I sure wouldn't say no to any leads, whether pro or con. It's not what I'm working on right at the moment, though, just where I'm pretty sure I'll eventually be going.

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