Discuss amongst yourselves

[xviciousx]

Agree or disagree with the following?

What isn't remembered, never happened. Memory is just a record, all you have to do is rewrite that record.

[indyram]

I agree especially if I'm in trouble. My wife however, disagrees totally.

[Oz]

Absolutely agree. Memory is nothing but chemical and electrical input. Imagine if every night we went to sleep, our memory was erased. And every morning we woke up, we just came up with a plausable explanation as to how we got where we are and everything that happened before.

MDM style y0' (Matrix Domestic Market)

[DGB454]

Originally Posted by Oz

. Imagine if every night we went to sleep, our memory was erased. And every morning we woke up, we just came up with a plausable explanation as to how we got where we are and everything that happened before.

Sounds like the movie 50 first dates.

[YogsVR4]

I was thinking it was a reverse Ground Hogs Day

[lamehonda]

But why do people with brain damage still have a criminal past and tax bills from pre-memory loss days? I disagree, this seems like something dreamed up by somebody on the computer when he thought to himself.."when I erase something from my hard drive it is gone...I wonder if life is the same way"

[eversio11]

Originally Posted by lamehonda

But why do people with brain damage still have a criminal past and tax bills from pre-memory loss days? I disagree, this seems like something dreamed up by somebody on the computer when he thought to himself.."when I erase something from my hard drive it is gone...I wonder if life is the same way"

Exactly.. what about home videos and photos? We have records of our existance besides just our memory. Theory - debunked.

[xviciousx]

But you all are thinking if ONE person forgets something. I'm talking about the whole world. If an event were to be forgotten, all evidence destroyed... would it exist? No, because things like that have happened, and we have no fucking clue cuz no one remembers it.

[91300zxtt]

yes i agree that things forgotten have never happened. there are alot of things that happened that way. also certain things like the communists and nazis did like rip pages out of all books that had to do w/ a certain topic. some ppl had no idea that any of it happened for another 40 years. i recently just found out last year, this sort of goes with what you are saying, that stalin had actually started another holocaust russian style, but luckily he died before he carried out his plan to its full effect. there would have been no way to stop him. so i agree very much with the original topic

[SeXy_AnGeL]

Things forgotten have never happened. If no one remembers it happening than how is there a way to prove that it happened?

[Jay!]

Memory sucks. Trust evidence.

[eversio11]

Anyone for 'memory loss means it never happens' still isn't making their point clear. Lets say I hide a phone in my glove compartment, and no one else knows it but me. The next day I get amnesia and forget about the phone. Did I still put the phone there? Of course, I'll find it eventually so therefore it existed despite the fact I did not remember putting it there and no one else saw me do it.

I realize you mean no evidence.. and the phone was evidence.. but I'm proving that actions can exist without memory of them. Proof or not.. things do take place despite our memory.

[Oz]

No, YOU don't get it. If you don't remember it and the most plausible explanation determined by brain chemistry of you and your partner is that your partner put it there, and that's what you noth remember and beleive - who's right or wrong?

[eversio11]

Originally Posted by Oz

No, YOU don't get it. If you don't remember it and the most plausible explanation determined by brain chemistry of you and your partner is that your partner put it there, and that's what you noth remember and beleive - who's right or wrong?

Obviously you still don't understand. It doesn't matter WHO did it, the point is it happened. The phone was moved from one spot to the other, it happened. Just because we don't have any recollection of who did it or why doesn't it mean it didn't occur.

[91300zxtt]

i agree with everio11 100% no matter what the fact that it still happened whether we remeber or know about it it DID in fact happen