Konner Johnson - Konner Johnson

 

    Memories are an interesting thing. They are something that happened in the past and yet they are heavily shaped by the present. Dr. Redick spoke about two ways that people in the past have viewed memories. He first spoke of how memories can be looked at in a linear fashion and in a circular fashion. If you look at it in a linear way you are simply looking back on a past event. However, if you look at it as a circle you look back on the past but then repeat what happened in that memory. Dr. Redick proposed a different look on the topic. The memories are all spirals coming out a different point of the spirals intersecting and interacting with one another. Memory is an interesting thing especially since you can never repeat what happened in the past. Even if you go to the same place with the same people and do the same activity it will be different. It will be influenced by past events and the things that are currently going on in the present, whether external or internal.