Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "Have You Experienced the Mandela Effect?" video.

  1. You missed a pertinent aspect of memory creation and recall: neural networks. Not only do synaptic links grow stronger through repeated activations (axonal terminal and dendritic growth leading to lower activation potentials), but the network of clusters associated with memories consist of elemental ideas tied together in an intricate web. For each aspect of a memory involved in that web, more chances that each individual connection is activated. Ideas like “window” are connected to what it is, it’s shape, it’s characteristics, what the word that represents it looks like, what all the letters in the word looks like, how the word sounds when you hear it, how you control your mouth, lungs, and esophagus when you say it, and all the specific instances involving windows which includes emotions of fear, anger, and relief. With such a vast network of ideas all tied together to create memories, overlapping is a certainty. A posh gentleman like The Monopoly Man would exist in the same sphere as the Peanut Man and all other “Rich Gentlemen” that are associated with wearing monocles. Memories are shaded by all stimuli during the experience. Emotions just happen to be one of the most vibrant shades. Emotions cause a large amount of electrical activity which affects all other brain functions to varying degrees. It’s basic Signal to Noise effects where the actual events as perceived by your senses (Signal) is subjected to the static of emotions (Noise). The brain has very few basic functions: sensory, processing, storage, recall, statistical analysis, strategize, execute. Statistical analysis involves all data stored as well as their relationships to each other. It is the dance between “what is” and the relationships between “those that are” that allows us to synthesize new thoughts to create solutions for problems. Sometimes that ability to rapidly put previously unassociated ideas to innovate.
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