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by tralarpa 492 days ago
> The machinery constructing query vectors has updated its structure enough that its encoding of those query vectors is sufficiently dissimilar from the encoding of the stored memory vectors (which use the encoding from the last recall).

Wouldn't that result in very bizarre memories instead of no memories?
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phantompeace 492 days ago
Not unless the brain does filtering (something we know for sure it does - psychedelics mess with this filter). I may be completely off the mark though
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mystified5016 492 days ago
The brain is sufficiently complex that I'd expect gross distortions will get swept under the rug. You'd get either lightly distorted memories (dad is 18ft tall, mom's face is wrong, favorite toy lived in this spot instead of that one) or nothing at all. If a memory is totally corrupted, your brain won't give it to you because it doesn't pass your perceptive filters.

Children believe a lot of silly things that they "grow out" of thinking.

How sure are you that your childhood memories are accurate? How sure are you that you aren't simply conditioned to ignore distorted childhood memories?

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