#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

1575.582 - 1606.277 Lex Fridman

Well, I think somebody once said to me that kind of loosely, philosophically, that the reason we don't remember the first few years of life, infantile amnesia, is because how traumatic it is. Basically, the error rate that you mentioned when... Your brain's prediction doesn't match reality. The error rate in the first few years of life, your first few months certainly, is probably crazy high.