Title: thepopupschool / Memory

Question: What is human memory described as, rather than a standalone system?
Answer: A cognitive package deal where sensation, perception, imagination, and action are woven together.

Question: What is the assembling process that constitutes remembering also known as?
Answer: Re-membering.

Question: What is involved in "re-membering" memory?
Answer: Assembling fragments of sensations, virtual perceptions, internal representations, and story fragments into a coherent whole.

Question: For a memory to be useful in the present, what quality must it possess in relation to the current situation?
Answer: Coherence

Question: What fundamental cognitive capacity becomes impossible for an organism in the absence of memory?
Answer: Learning

Question: What is the "delta" in the context of memory and learning?
Answer: The difference or variance between one moment and the next.

Question: What is the metaphor used to describe memory as a thread?
Answer: A thread that weaves the past into the present.

Question: Name three of the four types of memory pathways identified in the source.
Answer: Any three of the following: episodic, mimetic, theoretic, enacted

Question: What type of memory is characterized by "experiential knowing" and is exemplified by a horse's knowledge of a particular river crossing?
Answer: Episodic memory

Question: Describe a specific limitation of episodic memory illustrated by the behavior of horses in unfamiliar environments.
Answer: Difficulty generalizing knowledge to new but similar situations, like finding their way through an unfamiliar gate in a paddock or crossing a river at a new location.

Question: Mimetic memory is described as being rooted in what two fundamental aspects of bodily experience?
Answer: Gesture and action. A Bodily know-how.

Question: Provide an example from the source of how mimetic memory might function when one cannot consciously recall specific information.
Answer: Allowing your fingers to "remember" a phone number or piano piece through ingrained action protocols.

Question: Theoretic memory is described as a form of knowing that is rooted in which other type of memory mentioned in the source?
Answer: Mimetic memory

Question: What is the evolutionary relationship described between the three types of memory (episodic, mimetic, theoretic)?
Answer: Theoretic memory is rooted in mimetic memory, which in turn is rooted in episodic memory.

Question: According to Andy Clark's Theory of Ecological Assembly, what is the general tendency of organisms regarding the storage of memories to conserve energy?
Answer: To off-load memories into the external environment.

Question: What often serves as triggers for retrieving bodily stored memories?
Answer: Arousal states that flow into "virtual perception" space.

Question: Action protocols are said to be stored in the body through which specific type of memory, according to the source?
Answer: Episodic memory

Question: What does collective or social memory primarily relies on?
Answer: Procedural resourcefulness.

Question: Instead of a "prediction model" in the brain, what might be a more accurate way to understand the brain's activity related to action and sensation?
Answer: A retrospective mapping of where the body is going or has gone.

Question: In the context of memory, "re-membering" literally implies what kind of process?
Answer: Assembling parts into a whole