- You should HEAVILY avoid summoning memory mechanistically like that. You must prefer recalling holistic impressions, not individual neurones' excitements.
- Most people can call up pictures in their minds, visualizing the past & summoning images of the future. But for ~4% of us, such mental imagery is weak or absent. New edition of @nature.com has a nice introduction to how research on this phenomenon (aphantasia) opens up novel windows into the brain.🧪
- When you mentally revert into the state, you are most gentle to a memory. By trying to repaint and rescan the picture you erode and scratch it.Feb 6, 2026 02:03
