Ever had anxiety about your Memory?
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For the first time, an image of a memory being made at the cellular level has been captured by scientists.
Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you went in there in the first place?
Or you are introduced to someone and you then introduce the person you are with.
Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you went in there in the first place?
Or you are introduced to someone and you then introduce the person you are with.
"Please to meet you, Henry...This is, Helen. Helen this is...I'm sorry I have quite forgotten your name. I do apologise."
You remember the first letter of a word and the last letter better than the middle letters. A phone number will be recalled much easier if you make a break/pause in the middle of the number. Consonants at the beginning of words are recalled better than....etc etc. The peculiarities of memory can cause one anxiety. So the various kinds below are worth a scan.
Memory and stress
If you have chronic bouts of forgetfulness it could be your anxiety causing the mental miscues. This is because stress, anxiety, and even depression, can cause memory loss and mental haze. Too much stress over long periods of time can hinder brain function in a major way. One of the reasons for this is because when you become stressed your body releases a stress hormone called cortisol.
Memory and 'trace decay'
trace decay focuses on the problem of availability caused when memories decayDecay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical "memory trace" is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used.
Memory and Interference theory
refers to the idea that when the learning of something new causes forgetting of older material on the basis of competition between the two. In nature, the interfering items are said to originate from an over stimulating environment
Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. The duration of short-term memory (when rehearsal or active maintenance is prevented) is believed to be in the order of seconds
Long-term memory (LTM) is memory in which associations among items are stored, as part of the theory of a dual-store memory model. According to the theory, long term memory differs structurally and functionally from working memory or short-term memory, which ostensibly stores items for only around 20–30 seconds and can be recalled easily. This differs from the theory of the single-store retrieved context model that has no differentiation between short-term and long-term memory.
Context-dependent memory refers to improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. One particularly common example of context-dependence at work occurs when an individual has lost an item (e.g. lost car keys) in an unknown location. Typically, people try to systematically "retrace their steps" to determine all of the possible places where the item might be located. Based on the role that context plays in determining recall, it is not at all surprising that individuals often quite easily discover the lost item upon returning to the correct context.
Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. The duration of short-term memory (when rehearsal or active maintenance is prevented) is believed to be in the order of seconds
Long-term memory (LTM) is memory in which associations among items are stored, as part of the theory of a dual-store memory model. According to the theory, long term memory differs structurally and functionally from working memory or short-term memory, which ostensibly stores items for only around 20–30 seconds and can be recalled easily. This differs from the theory of the single-store retrieved context model that has no differentiation between short-term and long-term memory.
Context-dependent memory refers to improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. One particularly common example of context-dependence at work occurs when an individual has lost an item (e.g. lost car keys) in an unknown location. Typically, people try to systematically "retrace their steps" to determine all of the possible places where the item might be located. Based on the role that context plays in determining recall, it is not at all surprising that individuals often quite easily discover the lost item upon returning to the correct context.
The poblem with Solipism.
Some philosophers have argued that one cannot know if other minds exist because one only has access to other persons through physical interaction; this is the problem of Solipsism.
Other individuals could very well be robots who express common human behaviours, but have no mind or self. Solipsism, be it true, would mean that minds never actuallyinteract with each other, but suffer a lonely existence. Does this describe the way reality is?
Hmm...don't think so.
Aliens and their Royalties under Intergalactic Copyright Law
"Is Stephen Speilberg here?"
"Is this some kind of joke?
"No joke. I have come a long way. Not here to joke."
"What do ya want with him?"
"We have come to collect our Royalties...from Spielberg and all of Hollywood"
"Yer kiddin me."
"You humans! Have you never heard of Intergalactic Intellectual Copyright Laws? Just get a move on Hollywood confidence trickster... or I zap you."
Airport security the ideal job for aliens.
"Hello, can I help you?"
"Yeah, we looking for job centre."
"Oh right.,...right. Well, it's just down the road there."
"Can I ask...you know what kinda job my wife and I might do?"
"Well...eh...how about airport security..."
"Oh really?"
"What's wrong?"
"Aw schucks...just hought we would start further down your pecking order."
"Well, no need for false modesty, with eyes like that, if I can be personal. I am presuming you have X ray vision?"
"Oh yeah we got plenty of that. Too much in fact."
"Well then, you will be perfect for Airport Security. What is your name by the way?"
"Dork... and this is my wife Mrs Dork."
"Right,my name is Jim Smith."
"What an unusal name. How far is it?"
"What the Job Centre or Airport Security"
"Airport Security. Where we come from we like to cut to the chase."
"Oh really, quite, well...the Airport is about...30..50 miles I would say."
"Here, hop on my back I get you there in no time."
"What eh, right, well...a but undignified..."
"So this is Airport Security."
"Can I ask...you know what kinda job my wife and I might do?"
"Well...eh...how about airport security..."
"Oh really?"
"What's wrong?"
"Aw schucks...just hought we would start further down your pecking order."
"Well, no need for false modesty, with eyes like that, if I can be personal. I am presuming you have X ray vision?"
"Oh yeah we got plenty of that. Too much in fact."
"Well then, you will be perfect for Airport Security. What is your name by the way?"
"Dork... and this is my wife Mrs Dork."
"Right,my name is Jim Smith."
"What an unusal name. How far is it?"
"What the Job Centre or Airport Security"
"Airport Security. Where we come from we like to cut to the chase."
"Oh really, quite, well...the Airport is about...30..50 miles I would say."
"Here, hop on my back I get you there in no time."
"What eh, right, well...a but undignified..."
"So this is Airport Security."
Entropy, the basic law of the Universe.
Entropy – a measure of the unavailability of a system’s energy to do work; also a measure of disorder; the higher the entropy the greater the disorder.
When heat flows from a hot region to a cold region entropy increases, as heat is distributed throughout the system. The concept of entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics. The second law determines which physical processes can occur. For example, it predicts that heat flows from high temperature to low temperature in spontaneous processes. The second law of thermodynamics can be stated as saying that the entropy of an isolated system always increases, and processes which increase entropy can occur spontaneously. Since entropy increases as uniformity increases, the second law says qualitatively that uniformity increases
Ice melting in a warm room is a common example of increasing entropy,
Yeah, but what if I put that iced drink in my fridge?
Locally, the entropy can be lowered by external action. This applies to machines, such as a refrigerator, where the entropy in the cold chamber is being reduced, and to living organisms. This local decrease in entropy is, however, only possible at the expense of an entropy increase in the surroundings.
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. Walter Lang
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. Vaclav Havel
Only entropy comes easy. Anton Chekhov
Scientists have often been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves.”
The common argument used to explain this is that, locally, entropy can be lowered by external action, e.g. solar heating action, and that this applies to machines, such as a refrigerator.
The conditioner of this statement suffices that living systems are open systems in which both heat, mass, and or work may transfer into or out of the system. Unlike temperature, the putative entropy of a living system would drastically change if the organism were thermodynamically isolated. If an organism was in this type of “isolated” situation, its entropy would increase markedly as the once-living components of the organism decayed to an unrecognizable mass.
There are some hard to grasp meanings with Entropy, meanings directly contradicting their normal usage, withequilibrium being equated to "perfect internal disorder" and the mixing of milk in coffee from apparent chaos to uniformity being described as a transition from an ordered state into a disordered state.
Entropy? Is worth a study.
The common argument used to explain this is that, locally, entropy can be lowered by external action, e.g. solar heating action, and that this applies to machines, such as a refrigerator.
The conditioner of this statement suffices that living systems are open systems in which both heat, mass, and or work may transfer into or out of the system. Unlike temperature, the putative entropy of a living system would drastically change if the organism were thermodynamically isolated. If an organism was in this type of “isolated” situation, its entropy would increase markedly as the once-living components of the organism decayed to an unrecognizable mass.
There are some hard to grasp meanings with Entropy, meanings directly contradicting their normal usage, withequilibrium being equated to "perfect internal disorder" and the mixing of milk in coffee from apparent chaos to uniformity being described as a transition from an ordered state into a disordered state.
Entropy? Is worth a study.
The second law of thermodynamics is not a council of despair
"What the second law of thermodynamics states, roughly speaking, is that 'things' are getting more random all the time.
The relentless march of randomness
So if we set up a particular situation and then let the dynamics evolve it into the future, the system will evolve into a more random state as time progresses. We must expect that according to the second law things are getting progressively more and more random, but this represents an overwhelming probability, not quite an absolute certainty.
Nevertheless we can state we can state with a considerable amount of confidence that we shall experiene an entropy increase - in other words an increase in randomness."
Source: Roger Penrose Cycles of Time
Is there another copy of you out there?
Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet like Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities. The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 metres from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical calculation, but that does not make yourdoppelganger any less real.
The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices into infinity.
The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices into infinity.
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