‘Memory evokes an emotional response and remembering can be facts without an emotion’

Hi Ron Coleman back again for my 3rd post and I want to start with the last thing I said in my previous post when talking about going to see a job coach in the near future I said. “The only good thing about this is I personally will forget all about the job coach after about 72 hours.” As I reflected on this I spent most of my time thinking about the word forget which of course led me to think about memory and what it all means so I decided to ask my in-house experts who are our two kids who live at home Rory who is 19 and Francesca who is almost 16 this is what they thought. Rory just looked at me in the way that only a nineteen year old can and said “it’s about remembering innit”. Francesca took a bit more time before saying in her sweetest voice “It’s okay daddy I love you” she gave me her exasperated look that she has learned from her mother (who is of course my wife) At this point I returned to my study and continued thinking. I have come to think that memory evokes an emotional response whereas remembering can be facts without emotion why this is important is that we can use tech to store needed facts but we need to reopen neural pathways to restore our memories can we recover from dementia I think so…. To be continued
speak soon