Surely if there were anything to this doyletics emotional memory stuff, humanity would have known about it for a long time. What do you say about that?
Yes, you’re right. If there were any truth to the existence of an emotional memory that operates in parallel to our cognitive memory, people would have known about it for a long time. When people get surprised by a leaf, thinking it’s a roach or a mouse, their heart begins beating fast and their respiration rate increases. What do they say? “I feel foolish, but it happened before I knew it.” What they’re saying is a deep truth: our emotional memory operates faster than our cognitive memory and thus our heart will receive a signal to beat faster before our cognitive memory can discard the signal as a false alarm. Sigmund Freud wrote about “childhood amnesia” in one of his books. He said that most people have no memories of anything that happened to them much before five. Freud was talking about solely about cognitive memory, but he clearly stated the case for our knowledge of the onset of full cognitive memory capability beginning at five. Question: I am wondering about the World-Wide D
