Here’s 17 sources to check out more on this! If you appreciate all the hard work and research I did to ensure an unbiased and factual presentation, check the bottom links for my Patreon and more : ) Loftus And Palmer (1974): Car Crash Experiment: www.simplypsychology.org/loftus-palmer.html RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY: THE INCREDIBLE EYEWITNESS: www.jstor.org/stable/29761487?read-now=1&seq=6#page_scan_tab_contents How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/how-elizabeth-loftus-changed-the-meaning-of-memory SCIENTISTS CAN IMPLANT FALSE MEMORIES - AND REVERSE THEM: www.inverse.com/mind-body/how-to-reverse-false-memories-study You May Be Harboring False Memories and Never Even Know It: www.inverse.com/health/29175-how-find-false-memories-your-own-mind Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be reversed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2026447118 Make My Memory: How Advertising Can Change Our Memories of the Past: staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/BraunPsychMarket02.pdf Creating False Memories: staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-coGfGmOeLjE.html&ab_channel=Vsauce Six people were convicted of a murder they didn’t even remember. Now a county owes them $28 million: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/06/six-people-were-convicted-murder-they-didnt-even-remember-now-county-owes-them-million/ JOSEPH WHITE: www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3736 Photographs and False Memory: Did I really go for a hot air balloon ride?: web.colby.edu/cogblog/2014/11/11/photographs-and-false-memory/ Forget What You Know About Amnesia and Memory: www.brainandlife.org/articles/am-i-nothing-but-what-i-remember Amnesia: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/amnesia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353360 Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost: www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/amnesia-and-the-self-that-remains-when-memory-is-lost/266662/ Do People With Amnesia Know if Their Personality Has Changed?: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/people-are-strange/202109/do-people-amnesia-know-if-their-personality-has-changed Personality Trait Change in Adulthood: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743415/ Loftus Criticism: docs.google.com/document/d/1AAzDEMI2BZx3Efi84XzSG5aU9wbZxctfxLcppgCaTrA/edit?usp=sharing 3 links to help the channel: Support us on Patreon to improve our content: www.patreon.com/professorviral Join our Discord for some more discussion: discord.gg/AfwXGKx Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date: twitter.com/Professorviral
Due to a bunch of things that have gone on in my brain my whole life, I cant remember emotions (specifically with long term memory). Basically my memories come only in factual form: if I was feeling an emotion I remember the physical symptoms or the things I did like shaking from excitement or the suffocation of a panic attack, but none of the emotions or feelings that drove that action. Because of that Ive spent most of my life grappling with the whole "how do you know anything you remember is real" sort of question: up until my late teens when I started journaling I just thought that everyone was faking emotions at all times because I had no memories of any of the emotions I remember displaying actually being real emotions. Then I went into a phase of obsessively trying to journal down everything I felt after reading a certain visual novel with an amnesiac character, but I found as I went on that even though I had written all my emotions down as I felt them I couldnt believe them in the present reading back through them. Eventually I realized that the only way to reconcile with the sort of existential crisis of what memory is and what life means when you dont have the memories you need was to kinda stop caring about it all. Instead of letting paranoia constantly question whether anything you remember or wrote down in a journal is actually real or not, the only I found to find peace was just to live in the moment and not think about what I felt in the past or should be feeling now because of that. I think its much healthier to instead of thinking theres one truth of the way things went down in your past, simply take in all the hard evidence you can of that past and then draw your own conclusions about what you believe happened in the present. That truth you believe in will likely change and shift overtime as your perspective and evidence changes, but if its impossible to prove anything for sure then its not a problem. Thanks for another great video! I always enjoy reflecting on whatever topics you bring up
is there a name for this?? this exact thing is something ive always struggled with and as much as i wouldn't wish it on anyone else, im glad its not just me.
It kinda sounds like me as well, but maybe I'm just self diagnosing myself. I personally think that this is just how humans work, unless it's an actual proven thing.
definitely something to speak to a psychiatrist or other professional familiar with mental disorders, especially if you find it troubling like the original commenter described. Even if you’re not looking for a diagnosis, you could come away with some new info or insight. Knowledge is power :)
I've just paused this video midway through to comment that I really like how you describe normal and mundane "human" experiences like remembering, mostly because that's not how it works for me and usually people don't bother explaining them. I already knew that I cannot recall or imagine most of the five senses: I cannot recall how it felt to touch something and what it tasted or smelled like. Visual and auditory memories are extremely hard to remember as well, often I do not even remember my own memory but just the pictures I took (because I looked at them multiple times so they're easier to remember). This means that I'm usually left with my memories being a few sentences of how that specific event was. But, the idea of remembering the emotional state one was in? As in, feeling how you felt at that specific moment and not as a written recostruction of how you probably felt? It's so fascinating to me. The memory of my first kiss is simply the sentence "I kissed her under a tree in a crowded park in the summer, missing her lips almost completely and landing on her chin somehow". No smell, sound, taste, anything. I'm not even sure if I'm remembering it correctly. The idea that someone would be able to feel what they felt (and not just second-hand embarassment) is alien to me. I wonder if I will ever understand how exactly my mind differs from others, especially in everyday things such as remembering. Thank you for this video, I'll unpause and keep watching it!
I never really thought about how much memory is just using words to describe a, picture? Whenever you remember a memory it usually comes from a nostalgic stimuli, like when you smell a flower and instantly remember some random childhood memory, or see a view and think of something, or feel a touch from behind and remember a random memory of when someone did that as well. It's just all those senses of that memory stored dorment deep down that'll pop up from new stimuli that are almost perfect to replicate therefore jogging that memory, but will you ever truly experience that again with a picture? A video would be closer to reality but you'd still not be experiencing the 360 senses like movement, touch, smell, 360 sight, and emotion. So in the end that whole cliched quote that's goes like "live in the moment." Can be partially true but it's also kinda depressing for me whenever you think of how you're only truly ever gonna experience this day, this moment, this me? Once. And here I am worrying about trivial problems. Long rant I guess, lol.
You bring up a good point that I think alot of adults struggle with - People have a bad habit tieing their sense of self to specific things in their lives. Like, their work, their family or their religion... But when people do this, they can really unravel and become emotional and even violent when these things are questioned or lost. Eventually, a person like that is left miserable and hollow, obsessed with a past definition of what they were. Buut if you accept change and that everything as well as yourself Will change, you can constantly aim to change for the better. Be a bit more positive in life, more active, try new things, grow and develop. Then when those big life changes happen that might shake a part of your self-identity, you're more equipped to adapt and become better for it.
Hour long ProfessorV essay? We're eating good tonight boys! Had to post the engagement content for the algorithm. Thanks again Prof, let's hope your quality is rewarded.
Something i feel isn't rendered adequately in philosophy or existentialism is how much of your being is a product of your memory. It's somewhat obvious on its face, thus perhaps considered lowbrow, but it's also a little tragic to remind ourselves of this, as perhaps because of our nature or developed complexes we can't help but recall negative or awkward situations more often than positive ones. It also appears to vary so considerably between people, and so it's not easily discussed in a overarching or relatable way. That and the fairly well documented robust impact childhood trauma has on us, and indeed just how permanent or resilient it can be. We want to think we are only a result of the most refined logic and near idyllic iterations of human action, but our previous existence is substantially messy and makeshift, and the parts that are recalled most vividly is often chosen seemingly randomly at times. I suppose it invokes the question of how much one does, or ought to care about relating to others, as well as whether we could feel responsible for how we've turned out, whether we are responding appropriately to past traumas etc.
Memories , are the real nightmare , boundary , killer , and destroyer of confidence . Memories will never let you grow , when you hold a grudge you should always know that hate , is just a placeholder for terrifying memories :(
LG Rumour 2! That slide was so satisfying, everyone else was starting to get proper smartphones in middle school by then (iPhone 3GS, Samsung Galaxy 1/2 etc.) but I loved it regardless
Thank you so much for making this video about ghost in the shell, and the concept of memory. I rarely come across well detailed analysis videos, and this one, has to be one of the best ones I have seen. Hats off to you my friend!
The interesting thing about memory is PET scans have shown that the part of the brain most active when someone is remembering something is the same part of the brain involved with imagination. Memories are imaginations using some concrete information encoded into long term memory as a starting point. Every "recall" of the memory degrades it due to the reconstruction by the imagination centers never being a perfect 1:1 retrieval.
The digital store example at 33:11; Technically the bits could be changed, like the clock tower skip Mario 64. A particle hit the N64 and flipped a bit. A crazy unlikely chance, but one that could alter a stored memory.
You know, for the last 2,5 years of my life I kinda lost contact with all people that weren't my relatives (like classmates, friends and other acquaitances we obtain as "ourselves"). Most of them do not know me all that well (beyond the generic social role of "son", "grandson", "nephew" and the like, my hard drive contains more of my biography that all of their knowledge combined). Because of this my sense of self started to fade away along with ability to acknowledge my accomplishments and mistakes of the past, strenghts and weaknesses, what were my motives for certain actions originally before that and what essentially was making me who I am. I never thought that my sense of self depended that much on reflection off of others or that I will feel pressured to enter a social life in order to get it back. I do not think that I as "self" am neverchanging (ten years before I was not what I am now) but I just want the ability to build and change that "self" back. Enrolled in university with an understanding that this is one of the very few safe social environments to actively encourage change of self (at least in a way which is beneficial for society). I'll try to ask myself that "and where does the newborn go from here" more often. Thank you, man.
Amazing upload prof I always love your videos also ghost in the shell always felt like it was a movie that questions life and self to an extent I really enjoyed your video and your perspectives on anime. I feel that our minds can either make or break us that's why I think we all need positive self talk and confidence.
still hate texting and I rather have a phone that I can do radonactica and buying anime and manga alike. I don't care about talking to people on the phone because they breathe too heavily on the phone, dear god! lol
I recently for the first time, anesthesia. I remember entering the room, but I do not remember okaying it, or anything else after entering. So how can I know what happened in those moments before? Did I have any control over it if I do not remember it, as, in a sense, I have no recollection of making that choice in the first place. Just thought I'd share because it thoroughly has shaken my idea about memory and free will. Is there free will in the same sense if you have no potential to learn or reflect?
Idk but I think I thing that conveys this message in a way they didn’t mean to was the episode from Johnny test, where his sister wiped his mind and he acted totally different and behaved like a dog or something
HI. I have been inspired by your style of video and have been deeply moved by your personal accounts. I am a mentally disabled person and am working on a video of that subject and stigma of my particular illness. It would be an absolute honor to credit you at the end of the video as an inspiration to come to youtube and write an essay, even if I am disabled. For reference, I have not read a written book in 18 years because I cannot hear my inner voice, however, I am well studied in all the 18th-19th century Russians, the German expressionists, and the philosophies of Camus, Sartre, and sadly, Schopenhauer. I believe in no religion but archeology, and I believe in Apotheosis as a ideology, and I have the god of Spinoza in my heart.
As always your videos sre amazing, and quite honestly a god send right now. I'm going through a rough time with this girl I think i'm in love with. I don't think it'll work out the way I want it to because of a lot of outside factors so your videos are always a nice distraction to help me cope. 🙂
An interesting video, considering yesterday I had an interesting dream and I thought about the consequences of assuming it as my reality, it would change nothing, since it involved non existent people that would have been now dead, but in a way would make me happier, just the idea of if I assume it as real for long enough, would I actually have started to think that, feels impossible, but considering I already struggle to remember some key details from my childhood, there may have been some merit. Ultimately decided against it, as it would be a slippery slope.
I like the cyberpunk genre I find it fascinating. You might be interested in looking up some more Kurgesagt RU-vid videos; one of them titled the limits of humanity is a good one. Try to research cloning, CRISPR, A.I, and virology which explores the grey area between living and dead. All of these themes are relevant to cyberpunk and the theme of dystopia. Science is what you make of it; it can either be use for good or evil. Also, I'm still waiting for that Cell's at Work: Code Black and Castlevania analyses vids; they both have very dark gothic and morose themes.
Awesome video hey any chance you could do a video on either fate stay night unlimited blade works or heavens feel its genuinely some of the deepest stuff ive ever seen I know fate can be complicated but since youve already seen fate zero it doesn't mattar what order you whatch it from anymore.
I do have one on it, and I think it is an interesting video; however, it was written at a time where I didn't quite understand Momoe's character enough, which is a pretty heavy dose of irony for myself. I don't think it's something which is "dated" or "hateful," but might be seen as dismissive
Do you use a specific application to keep track of the studies you research? If so could you please tell me which. Just about to research for my highschool philosophy thesis.
I just keep every outline I make, with the links to sources within it if I used research, in a Google drive for the channel to be honest, nothing too fancy
@@justafish9618 meanwhile justafish said: "@yoavco99 and on the fourth minute Fish said: let there be Prof." In response to the ordeal he saw transpiring.
Another wonderful video Prof ☕☺️ made me think about my grandma with dementia, and being afraid of that happening to me some day. To lose part of your identity
It's an outright tragedy that something like that can happen to us. To be honest, I don't even have the right words for it. I've been lucky to avoid witnessing it in people i love, so it's best left to those who have
I enjoy your philosophical discussions very thought-provoking and inspirational. Thank you continue to challenge our minds on the perception of oneself. We appreciate your work you are someone worth experiencing. 🫡
