[ryanianian]

Let's be honest we all remember a stupid thing we said or did 20 years ago.

TFA briefly mentions the hippocampus owning these kinds of episodic memories in humans although cuttlefish don't have hippocampuses(i?).

It's weird how "embarrassment trauma" memories can last so long and can force that sort of weird ooph sigh every time we recall them.

Perhaps cuttlefish experience every meal as an embarrassing memory. (Kidding but only kind of. The experience of memories is interesting - Radio Lab did a series on it iirc.)

[progre]

John Green has put this to words in a very John Green-like way:

But I can recall my every mortification as if it occurred moments ago. I know this because each evening when I finish reading for the night, I’ll turn off my bedside lamp, roll over onto my side, close my eyes, and my brain will say. “Oh, good evening. Should we play the blooper reel?” And I’ll say, “Ah, you know, I’d really rather not,” and my brain will say, “Excellent. Let’s begin in a high school auditorium outside of San Francisco.”

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...