Headlee: Brain Softens Memories of Pain to Prevent Psychological Dysfunction
Celeste Headlee · #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation · Feb 5, 2019 · at 1:06:46
Author Celeste Headlee explains the cognitive mechanics behind memory to argue why people cannot accurately recall past grief or equate their pain to another's current suffering.
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“The fact of the matter is, is that when we experience in any kind of pain or travail, your brain immediately Gets to work on softening that memory. Literally right after it happened. And that's a really good reason, because if we actually remembered pain to its full extent, exactly the way it was when we first felt it, we would be dysfunctional.”
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