Mycroft
The elder Holmes
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w6
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sp
I have an odd fascination with, and fear of, the faculties of recollection.
When I look back at books I've read over, it amazes me all of the details I had completely forgotten. Entire chapters, entire concepts. And this is with books I love and have read over multiple times. I confess it causes me some anxiety and dismay, seeing all of this information my mind simply failed to retain. And you have no control over it. You present your mind with information, and it either retains it or does not, with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
In fact, science bears this out. The hippocampus is responsible for long-term memory retention, and its functions are entirely subconscious. And what we remember is who we are. Our identities are the collection of our memories, and what our hippocampus filters for. This has a correlation with the typology we discuss on these forums: an Fi-dominant will be someone whose hippocampus filters for "introverted feeling" information. A Te user will be someone whose memory filters for Te information. And so on. All of this completely beyond our control.
It fascinates and mortifies me. I'm curious to know how other forum members experience their faculties of recollection.
When I look back at books I've read over, it amazes me all of the details I had completely forgotten. Entire chapters, entire concepts. And this is with books I love and have read over multiple times. I confess it causes me some anxiety and dismay, seeing all of this information my mind simply failed to retain. And you have no control over it. You present your mind with information, and it either retains it or does not, with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
In fact, science bears this out. The hippocampus is responsible for long-term memory retention, and its functions are entirely subconscious. And what we remember is who we are. Our identities are the collection of our memories, and what our hippocampus filters for. This has a correlation with the typology we discuss on these forums: an Fi-dominant will be someone whose hippocampus filters for "introverted feeling" information. A Te user will be someone whose memory filters for Te information. And so on. All of this completely beyond our control.
It fascinates and mortifies me. I'm curious to know how other forum members experience their faculties of recollection.