Rules of memory

[Nearly Sane]

Fascinating


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39518580

[Jack Knave]

Best bit of information I've had from science for a long time, excellent. Thanks.

I note from Henry Molaison case that the cortex needs the hippocampus to form memories in the first place, it can't on its own as if it is a series process not a parallel one. I also wonder what could block the links between them as a natural coarse of things - i.e. without damage - to stop the long term memory from forming. The other thing is how do we alter our long term memories to form false ones - does this start in the hippocampus somehow and then change the cortex one....?

[Nearly Sane]

Great questions but surely all memories are indicatively false here? We just form differently false memories, and they seem to do different 'jobs'?

[Jack Knave]

Great questions but surely all memories are indicatively false here? We just form differently false memories, and they seem to do different 'jobs'?

I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying. Are you saying that we initially create false memories right from the start. If not how do they change latter on?

Aren't most memories a function of the unconscious as I don't try and do them they are just part and parcel of my corporeal state. If however I recall years latter something which isn't a fact about my life is this because my body/brain was faulty at the time of creating the memory or have I done something to change things.....?