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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
".... I shudder to think that the reason we remember events differently is because different things happened to each of us sharing the same experience in space & time....
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this is true, but not what the book is talking about. it is about memorizing things, why we remember some facts and not others. we remember places and events, things out of the ordinary, we remember dirty porn easier than other things. routine things are not "important" and get glossed over.
[QUOTE=Ourcrazymodern?;2889861]I look at my bookshelves & realize I don't remember most of what most of the books were even about, but remember minor things with excruciating clarity & almost nobody's phone numbers.../QUOTE]
we don't remember books because we don't read them the way they were read waaaaaaaay back in roman/greek times. back then, memory of things was important, it's how information was carried.