If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?

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Every time I think of a memory, I’m like “Holy Shit… that was once ‘the present’”. What the hell?

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our memories are not our values, our principles, our habits, our quirks, our capacity for positive experience or engaging interaction.

but they’re pretty closely tied into all of them. i’m not an amnesiologist but i imagine it depends on the specific case how much is ‘lost’ in a given case of amnesia and what’s able to be recovered.

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