This is a bit of a strange one but I thought I’d share it anyway. To (very) briefly explain – at the heart of my story are questions about memory, and how our memories of life experiences affect who we are and how we behave. With that in mind…
It’s believed that our long-term memory comes in three flavours:
Episodic, Procedural and Semantic.
Your first kiss,
The best meal you’ve ever eaten,
Attending your daughter’s graduation,
Episodic memory covers the massive accumulation,
Of life experiences that are unique to you,
Things that have happened at a specific time,
At a specific venue.
Procedural memory comprises those skills,
That have been learnt,
But that we perform so effortlessly that it appears we weren’t,
Conscious of learning them in the first place,
Like riding a bike or tying a shoe lace.
And semantic memory is all about remembering factual information,
Such as capital cities or multiplication,
Often the sort of stuff you learn at school,
Right down to the most basic cognition:
That a cat is an animal and a hammer is a tool.
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