The Memory Machine
This morning I was listening to an episode of You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes where Pete recounted a recent conversation he'd had with someone about memory. To be specific, he was talking about memories his daughter, who's maybe preschool/kindergarten-aged, was forming. Pete's friend said something to the effect of his daughter only really remembering big things, like a family vacation, and not the everyday things like her dad coming to pick her up from school. Pete guffawed like this person was missing the entire point of life, doubling down that he was certain his daughter would only remember things like him coming to pick her up from school. That was the core memory, not a random vacation. It made me chuckle as I went about the business of doing a very mundane task -- changing the sheets on my bed -- as I thought about how much Pete wanted to be right about this. That his daughter would be so evolved ...