Memory Degradation Quotes

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.