Post #1445028
2025-12-27 16:33 UTC
@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 16:41
@kissane In time-travel science fiction, we can see a distinction between early stories where a modern goes back to some early days and teaches them how to make gunpowder, changing the course of history. This was followed fairly shortly by stories where a modern gets back to early days and realizes *they don't know squat about gunpowder* - only that it exists and could change the course of history, if only they knew what it actually was.