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by robertlagrant 819 days ago
> I feel like I experience past events more as modifications to my world view rather than a log of moments

That's interesting - I'm similar. I think of it in terms of remembering conclusions, rather than the reasons for the conclusions. Which can make it difficult to explain my reasoning sometimes - I tend to only remember the axioms/assumptions, and the conclusions, and have to try and recreate the intermediate steps every time.

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Heh, in deduction systems there is something called proof erasure, I believe asserting that any two proofs of the same proposition are equal. Maybe your mind's inference is working on something like a proof erasure principle? :-)
Well, that sounds good! I was previously riding high on coming out of Mayers-Briggs with a personality type that sounds like some sort of all-knowing robot god. Proof erasure principle sounds like an excellent followup (-: