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

9090.714 - 9117.688 Charan Ranganath

Yeah, so my friend Philippe de Brigarde wrote this, and it just blew my mind, where the word nostalgia was coined by a Swiss physician who was actually studying traumatized soldiers. And so he described nostalgia as a disease. And the idea was it was bringing these people extraordinary unhappiness because they're remembering how things used to be. And I think it's very complex.