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[–]ToBePacific 9ポイント10ポイント  (14子コメント)

I think it's pretty neat how in your mind Mr. Smith firing a gun at Mrs. Smith is as memorable as "the" vs "an" or "e" vs "a".

[–]blue-flight 1ポイント2ポイント  (13子コメント)

About as memorable as a guy getting run over by a tank though.

[–]ToBePacific 5ポイント6ポイント  (12子コメント)

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize everyone who claims he was hit by the tank was actually there to see it in person.

[–]blue-flight -2ポイント-1ポイント  (11子コメント)

Irrelevant to remembering the incident.

[–]AbitOfAgaff 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's irrelevant to have experienced something to remember it properly? Is this what this board is like?

You remember what you were TOLD what happened. You remember what you THOUGHT happened. Not what happened.

He didn't get run over btw, no one thinks he did.

[–]blue-flight 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

No, I saw him him get run over. Multiple times. Everyone saw it bc it was a huge world event.

My 56 year old co-worker said they ran him over. All I did was say "do you remember tiananmen square?" he said "Yeah they ran him over" and "that's why everyone hated china". He would have been about 30 years old at the time.

You don't know what you're talking about.

[–]AbitOfAgaff 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

No, YOU don't know what you are talking about. It's a documented event. Photographed and caught on tape. The world witnessed it and you can research it anytime you feel like it.

[–]ToBePacific 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

Seeing something in person is VERY different from reading a story or seeing a video.

[–]blue-flight 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

Yeah but it was a huge world event. You couldn't really miss it.

[–]ToBePacific 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

That doesn't change the fact that witnessing a shooting firsthand is very different from the mediated distance between the viewer and the media itself.

[–]blue-flight 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's different in some ways but as far as memory goes it's irrelevant and you know. Your analogy fails in this case and that was my point.

[–]ToBePacific 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

as far as memory goes it's irrelevant and you know.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Had a person witnessed this IRL they'd have perceived a 3D spatial representation, heard the sounds around them, smelled the air, etc. Memories of being in a place are still fallible but they are a few orders of magnitude more powerful than memories of recorded media.

As far as analogies go, dismantling OP's analogy was entirely my point.