Maybe this could be listed in its own category yet it applies here as well. MEMORY
It seems self evident to me that not only does memory matter but to discuss the importance of memory is complicated immediately and there have been classic examples of eye witness accounts of what happened.
If several eye witnesses have different takes on what happened is it not worth considering how the words we chose to use, words that we think explains or describes
Something of great importance for peers as well as professionals use to determine and define what is happening with/in a person.
I think that well known movies can help illustrate what I mean. If anyone saw the movie Shallow Hal a chance meeting in an elevator the character “ Hal “ meets Tony Robbins who gives Hal a suggestion and after he leave the elevator he sees a heavy set girl as Gwyneth Paltrow. As I mentioned in another post but coming at the subject from a different perspective. I wonder if anyone who read that first post sees the connection?
Now maybe someone else might want to know what any of this has to do with memory.?
But going back to the Shallow Hal movie ; I think the essence of using this example is a great one because a movie can easily illustrate what one person sees ( thinks ) while another person is seeing everything differently.
If we human beings can not assure each other that we’re talking about the same thing then it seems to me that the changes that are happening in the world get more complicated to identify and explain as time goes by complicated further by cultural differences and an inability and or desire to look at the whole and break things down to a series of definitions and agreements.
We can see this pretty clearly in health care.
And as an example of one particular area of how conflict arises by looking at the psych bible: The DSM 5 and DSM 4 The DSM 5 pretty much eliminated the AXIS system. So when the new book comes out a patient is looked at through a new and different system. How do professionals communicate about a patient who was seen for years by a shrink who retired before the DSM5 comes out?
I’m sure this opens a whole new can of worms about a myriad of topics, subjects, diagnosis’s and we haven’t even touched on the Glode that most of us used to learn countries before the countries changed-boarders so quickly that a globe was outdated before it went to market.
Have I confused everyone enough?