Listening to a program on NPR's Infinite Mind on memory. They talk about emotion being the strongest enactor of long-term memory. Duh! As the information absorbing organizm the is we, absorbes its environment -- patterns come and patterns go. Some, you see, need to be recorded, remembered for later refrence. ... Ah, I've experienced that before! It's important for some reason because I remember it. My mind decided that I might find this information (or rather it might find the information) useful.
Why?
Because when we experience emotion, we are (subconsciously) placing value on information. As we experience the event through emotion, we interpret the input as having some outstanding (abnormal, or rare) quality. We are training our minds of what is different and should be kept on the lookout for.
Unfortunatly, in this program, they mostly did exercises, talked about a musical, and had a guy on talking about a drug they were designing to enhance the reception of neurotransmitters. But this is like turning up the gain on a mic instead of moving closer to the source -- you amplify the noise as well... what will come of this?
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