{"id":13373,"date":"2020-08-20T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:20:10","slug":"memory-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/memory-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Memory and Identity Are Connected, And Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the relationship between memory and identity? How does your memory help form your identity, and vice versa?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relationship between memory and identity is important for understanding your perception. Our long term memories help to form our perspective on the world, which affects how and when we create new memories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to find out more about how memory and identity are connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Memory and Identity<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What does memory have to do with our identities? Historically, memory was a measure of character and virtue. Memorizing things helped you absorb them. For example, memorizing an oral poem about ethics was a way of internalizing ethics, so that any time a situation came up, you knew how to respond appropriately and morally. <strong>Memorization was meant to be humanizing.<\/strong> Therefore, memory and identity are closely related in human history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In modern times, we can learn about ethics and morals in ways other than memorizing. However, memory is still related to who we are. Your memory is a record of what\u2019s happened to you over your life and influences how you make new memories in the future. <strong>To create a new memory, you link your current perceptions to what\u2019s already in the web in your head\u2014everything you encounter is influenced by everything you\u2019ve already encountered.<\/strong> Memory and personal identity are influenced by this complex wev. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">M<strong>emory and Other Mental Faculties<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Memory is related to many of the other things that go on in our brains, such as identity, expertise, intelligence, and our perception of time. In fact, memory and identity have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-people-closest-to-you\/\">close relationship<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because our memories are stored in a web of associations in our brains, <strong>whenever we encounter something new, our interpretation of it is filtered by what we already know.<\/strong> As a result, our memories of the past are constantly influencing our actions in the present. We behave the way we do because of our memories, and, therefore, our memories shape our identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our memories also affect our expertise and intelligence. Interestingly, scientists have discovered that <strong>expertise isn\u2019t a function of intuition or intelligence\u2014it\u2019s a matter of perceiving things and relating them to the patterns of associations we already have in our heads.<\/strong> Experts have seen so many versions of the same thing that when they came across a situation, they can instantly remember the most relevant previous experience and apply the correct response without even thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, chess players can look at a board and come up with the ideal move within five seconds. They don\u2019t have to consciously plan out moves in advance or try to predict what their opponent will do because they\u2019re so familiar with board positions, they know how things will play out.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, memory has a large effect on how we perceive the passing of time. Contrary to the old adage about time flying when you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/have-more-fun\/\">having fun<\/a>, <strong>time appears to pass more quickly when we\u2019re bored and more slowly when we\u2019re doing interesting new things and making new memories.<\/strong> For example, as you get older, do you feel like time passes more quickly? This is because you\u2019re making fewer memories than you did as a child when you were encountering things for the very first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We remember events in relation to other events, so the more memories we can lay down, the denser our network of associations. The denser the web, the more time it feels like we have. Some people make new memories with the express purpose of making their lives feel longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Forgetting<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to memory and personal identity, scientists used to think that people remembered everything that had ever happened to them, and memories only became inaccessible because the cues were lost over time. However, this is not the case\u2014<strong>memories do fade over time at the cellular level.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memories fade most quickly in the hours and days after forming.<\/strong> Anything that\u2019s left after a month tends to stay with us long-term. Interestingly, our memories change over time. We tend to remember our oldest memories in third person, as if we were watching them, and our newer memories from our own points of view. Sometimes our memories change so much they no longer even accurately record what happened. In this way, memory and identity are formed early on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don\u2019t we remember anything before we were three or four? This should have been a very memorable time our lives\u2014everything we encountered was new. It could be due to a few reasons: our brains aren\u2019t fully developed until we\u2019re three or four, most of our early learning is unconscious, and we don\u2019t have language or a large existing web of associations. Even when we encounter new things, if we don\u2019t have anything already in our heads to associate them with, they don\u2019t stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesia can also be responsible for forgetting, and is also a part of memory and personal identity. The acts of creating and recalling memories take place in different parts of the brain, so it\u2019s possible to be unable to form new memories but still capable of remembering old ones, or vice versa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you know how memory and identity are connected, you can consider how your memories have shaped you, and how it might affect how you form new ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the relationship between memory and identity? How does your memory help form your identity, and vice versa? The relationship between memory and identity is important for understanding your perception. Our long term memories help to form our perspective on the world, which affects how and when we create new memories. 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