It’s already late. No time for coding.
Tonight I watched A Beautiful Mind a movie generously passed on me by a friend.
It was more or less as long as I expected. The story however was more interesting, although a bit too dramatic for my taste. It’s based on a true story, so I can’t really complain too much (hey man change your life !).
Considering some of my recurrent topics, I had to like the parts where the protagonist logically analyzes women met at social events.
As a side effect, the movie got me thinking about intelligence, personality, life (boom !).
One thing that I don’t accept very well is the fact that memory is so unreliable. We experience things but memorize them in a very “lossy” compressed format.. and when we go pick up the memories, they could easily be overly distorted (they are already clearly distorted by definition because of the nature of the compression !).
There is always a special twist that one puts when bringing back memories, sometimes big chunks are missing, sometimes we think we remember something since our childhood, but it could well be a creation. One may doubt that a memory of some event got distorted with time, one could even try to account with that, but the memory itself could be 100% inaccurate.. a creation of some remote past that evolved with time, a creation of some recent past, or even a current creation that one thinks is an actual memory or a possible past creation.. but that is in fact just a current creation.
Simply put: I remember I was a kid and I had this toy car in my hands. Maybe I wasn’t quite like that. Maybe it’s a memory I had created in my teenager years. Maybe I’m just imagining it now. Maybe I will keep imagining it into the future. Maybe I will not.. …a potentially totally unreliable situation.. worst case scenario !
This is a very contorted way of thinking, but it’s also something that one has to account for, when striving for truth.
Posted by Davide Pasca in Uncategorized