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Charan Ranganath

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2024-05-25

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1. “Basically, I think that a lot of learning in the brain is driven towards being able to make sense. I mean, really, memory is all about the present and the future. The past is done. So biologically speaking, it's not important unless there's something from the past that's useful. And so what our brains are really optimized for is to learn about the stuff from the past that's going to be most useful in understanding the present and predicting the future, right? And so cause effect relationships, for instance. That's a big one. Now, my future is completely unpredictable in the sense that you could, you know, in the next 10 minutes pull a knife on me and slip my throat, right?”

   2024-05-25 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I got into it because it's so much about memory, even though he doesn't study memory. So we're right now having this experience, right? And people can watch it presumably on YouTube or listen to it on audio. But if you're talking to somebody else, you could probably describe this whole thing in 10 minutes. But that's going to miss a lot of what actually happened. And so the idea there is that the way we remember things is not the replay of the experience. It's something totally different. And it tends to be biased by the beginning and the end. And he talks about the peaks. There's also the best parts, the worst parts, et cetera. And those are the things that we remember. And so when we make decisions, we usually consult memory. And we feel like our memory is a record of what we've experienced, but it's not. It's this kind of very biased sample, but it's biased in an”

   2024-05-25 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Any really impacted me because I was an undergrad at Berkeley and I got to take a class from him long before he won the Nobel Prize or anything. And it was just a mind-blowing class. But this idea of remembering self and the experiencing self.”

   2024-05-25 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source