Why arguing is hard: Our memories are unreliable

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HGModernism

Күн бұрын

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@brianbutton6346 4 ай бұрын

I read the full description paragraph before hitting play.

@HGModernism 4 ай бұрын

Fascinating, good to know!

@Derpalerpa 2 ай бұрын

Based

@rjlkc4668 Ай бұрын

I loved the description!

@donperegrine922 Ай бұрын

I read the first description in my life, because of this comment.

@matthew_tall 4 ай бұрын

mine is the most valid tbh

@vladthemagnificent9052 4 ай бұрын

facts

@ninjalectualx 4 ай бұрын

I'm not like the other guys

@dororo101 2 ай бұрын

@Capyばら-みく Ай бұрын

Mine is better I would argue, but friendly competition I can sense you are good 😎

@mcawesome4150 Ай бұрын

@@ninjalectualxI’m not like the other brain cells

@ExterminatorElite 4 ай бұрын

Thinking of brains as "lossy" is such a simple and appropriate way to describe something I already knew, I'm definitely incorporating it. Good short explanation!

@dymaxion3988 2 ай бұрын

This is why communication and collaboration is so important - it allows us to connect our little mental models together into bigger, potentially more accurate ones. Human knowledge is a patchwork quilt.

@StainlessHelena 2 ай бұрын

Your videos tickle my neuron loaf in all the places. Keep em coming!

@joshdw4 26 күн бұрын

1) I'm convinced your citations list is woefully inaccurate because listing your wikipedia binges would be an insane amount of work (oh, please do it just once, purely for the sake of me validating my own deep dives) 2) You put waaaaaaay more effort into these videos than i expect anyone gives you credit for. Respect 3) Your random grins and unexpected video ends subvert expectations and are just icing on the cake. I'm glad someone finds humor in the random idiosyncrasies of the world. Respect.

@jamesphillips2285 4 ай бұрын

I sometimes check the descriptions to see if the creator cites their sources at all.

@HGModernism 4 ай бұрын

Noted, that's fair!

@i3looi2 2 ай бұрын

The saying goes, you don't remember the event, you remember the last time you remembered the event. So that's why you lose more and more details and end up with just the abstract information.

@marloelefant7500 Ай бұрын

The question of how many memories a human brain can store becomes very interesting when studying edge cases: people that basically remember every minute of their life. Or when we suddenly remember something already forgotten. Yes, our memories can become wrong, but I believe that we don't really lose memory (apart from falsifying it), it simply becomes unaccessible.

@OutsiderLabs Ай бұрын

Oh we definitely lose memories too, that much can be concluded from the fact that time literally causes brain damage to slowly build up. If you damage a part where a memory exists it becomes truly lost, just ask people with vascular encephalopathies

@aiforculture 4 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this - and your presenting style! Have very happily subscribed, and now I'm joyfully remembering all the cute collections of subatomic particles which have fallen asleep on my lap over the years 🐈💤

@ninjalectualx 4 ай бұрын

I thought "memory of noise" was going to refer to auditory memories lol. I don't think our memories of sounds are as editable as more emotional memories, we can all remember our favorite guitar solo pretty much accurately

@yieldsfalsehood8863 2 ай бұрын

You're on a roll with these videos!

@corpsinhere 7 күн бұрын

I have watched two videos from this channel so far - I wish they were were longer!

@Capyばら-みく Ай бұрын

You should do a video about Katinami's (professor at Kyoto きょと University) brain audiovisual functional magnetic resonance imaging, I think their research on "dream reproduction" via brain-fmri-computer interfacing using AI, I think you could explain it better than I just did haha

@Capyばら-みく Ай бұрын

* you should sounded mean, I take back that statement and apologize - I should have said it would be cool!

@hansel2001 2 ай бұрын

Interrogator: So final question, was there anything unusual or peculiar about the perpetrator? Me: Wait yes, there was this annoying single floating thread of several blond hairs floating in front of her forehead for 3 minutes and 24 seconds. Wait, was it 1 or was it 2 floating threads? Interrogator: Was it 1 or was it 2? Your memory is the key factor in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Me: ….she was Asian.

@HGModernism 2 ай бұрын

I have learned the hard way: if something is infuriating me while editing, it will also drive other people crazy too and I should just re-record haha

@DerekSpeareDSD 4 ай бұрын

the most "valid" is what reality actually is...only reality is real and anything else is our understanding of it. If we can get close to describing it accurately, we've don't a pretty good job. Random dude here from the algorithm.

@deanthroop8054 2 ай бұрын

Just another note, I do not usually read the descriptions because i stream on my TV often and KZbin creates friction to access the description. However, i think the description does feed into the recommendation algorithm.

@davidli8936 15 күн бұрын

I’m going to use “giant cluster of squishy neurons” to describe my brain from now on.

@manso306 Ай бұрын

Sometimes a creator will say something that's reasonable to assume might be expanded upon or complemented by reading the description. Then I read the description. Also, sources / citations of course.

@Nosikas 2 ай бұрын

these videos are wonderful

@andruloni 14 күн бұрын

I prefer to have my browser stop the autoplay of videos, so I can assess the description and mainly the comments, without giving watchtime to something I might not want promoted. Also saves me cleaning my watch history if I don't want related videos in my feed.

@Autogenification 2 ай бұрын

The squishie compression of reality is the most valid 😻😻😻

@deanthroop8054 2 ай бұрын

The human brain is amazing at finding patterns. We are building tools (A.I.) that do it better. What if there is another way of thinking? In the beginning, there was just a stone, then we added a handle, and now when you go into a hardware store there is an entire wall of hammers. I am sure if a hammer could, it would also invent new hammers that do a better job. What if there are plyers out there? Maybe the universe is full of plyers and we have already seen them, but because we are hammers, we do not recognize them? Your channel is so cool!!! Love your content and the way you present it. Thank you for doing what you do and sharing!

@HGModernism 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think about that a lot. It reminds me of how the fb chat bots condensed our language to develop their own that was more efficient. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/facebook-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-new-language-research-openai-google-a7869706.html

@xantiom Ай бұрын

Eidetic memory: save it raw

@Langkowski 4 ай бұрын

This is also true about what we read and see in the news. We don't remember all the tiny little details like date, names, numbers and so on, but with remember the most important (many don't remember the name of the terrorists on 9/11, the exact number of victims, the time of day or the number of the flights, but they do remember what happened). This can be a problem when arguing in social media, where opponents demands links, documentation and facts ("otherwise it didn't happen"). You remember reading an article about a topic, but don't remember the article itself or all the tiny little details, just the conclusion you share with others online. Also makes me think about the debate about the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron" some years ago, suggested by UCLA neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried. Oliver Sacks deal with a similar topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZiyhZSOncekhrM

@HGModernism 4 ай бұрын

I hadn't heard of the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron", looks like it was kind of a joke when they first proposed it. From wikipedia for context on the name, "After operating on patients who experience epileptic seizures, the researchers showed photos of celebrities like Jennifer Aniston. The patients, who were fully conscious, often had a particular neuron fire, suggesting that the brain has Aniston-specific neurons". That's cool!

@Yottenburgen 2 ай бұрын

Its a problem with arguing in general and people that don't realize that this is how brains work assume that they themselves can perfectly do what they demand because otherwise it does seem perfectly reasonable to remember every source.

@k98killer Ай бұрын

Technically, there are some human brains that do not have lossy memory. Any model that does not account for these outliers is necessarily incomplete and wrong.

@OrangeSan 4 ай бұрын

Loved the video. Keep it up 🧡

@Shmooper_Dooper 2 ай бұрын

What's that poster in the background? Love your setup! :)

@Njilko 2 ай бұрын

Its the Dark Souls Map

@Shmooper_Dooper 2 ай бұрын

@@Njilko oh nice! I love dark souls maybe I’ll grab that poster

@larsfinlay7325 2 ай бұрын

All this science jargon and I’m just sitting here wondering when I’m gonna get that pork chop I ordered an hour ago.

@OnceinaSixSide 4 ай бұрын

Comment for the algogod. Keep up the solid work!

@whelkpeopleofdoom 2 ай бұрын

I know this is completely relevant to what you're talking about, but I just gotta say you have the HEALTHIEST looking platinum blonde/white hair i have ever seen, bravo 🙌

@CompanionCube 2 ай бұрын

I, too, have a brain

@javier-is-away 4 ай бұрын

cool video keep it up

@NoName-ik2du 2 ай бұрын

On the topic of compressing information into the familiar, your speaking cadence feels extremely similar to another KZbinr I've seen. I'm thinking maybe it's reminding me SuperfastMatt. Maybe...my clusters of squishy neurons are failing me on this one.

@19CD91 Ай бұрын

I don't remember asking! ....wait

@megazord5696 Ай бұрын

you monster, tell me which one is the most valid

@moxgeek 4 ай бұрын

One pizza please

@vladthemagnificent9052 4 ай бұрын

here you go 🍕

@mrhitech6742 4 ай бұрын

He said "here's your pizza, with lots of extra cheese!"

@eusou2066 2 ай бұрын

Dope.

@silveryt2 21 күн бұрын

I can answer your question as soon as you define "valid".

@deanthroop8054 2 ай бұрын

Wait, go back to our voices resonating at multiple different frequencies at the same time. Why? Is it the analog method for creating the sound vs. the digital, in the same way an incandescent bulb generates more radiation than we see and the LED generates a finer spectrum? If so, then your guitar does the same thing, while a synthesizer does not, or any speaker for that matter.

@kaitlyn__L 19 күн бұрын

They're called harmonics, or overtones. Synthesisers absolutely produce them too, unless you produce a pure sine wave. (And even then, if there's any harmonic distortion in the amp or speaker, you'll get extra harmonics induced.)

@FrazerKirkman 21 күн бұрын

These videos are so good. I'm going to share them in the comments on other great science communicator channels! You should too! How else can we get her more of the views she deserves?

@silveryt2 21 күн бұрын

Don't simp.

@Derpalerpa 2 ай бұрын

Now I want pizza 😤

@thomashaugh8720 22 күн бұрын

Pizza 🍕

@matthewlloyd3255 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if this is related to how as a rather unskilled portrait artist I used to draw from memory more often than from sight (bad technique) but it meant that my self portraits were often a lot more accurate than portraits of people I thought I knew well.