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Mailbag Installment 5: The Memory Machine
In this episode, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of Crowscupboard.com invites listeners into a meditation on memory - no longer a candle passed from mind to mind, but a circuitry of data and desire. Drawing on the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), Dr. Rey examines how collective memory has migrated from the oral to the algorithmic, shaping what humanity remembers - and what it forgets.
From the neural encoding of emotion to the digital contagion of belief, this conversation explores why misinformation feels so persuasive: because the brain itself prizes coherence over accuracy. Memory is not a…
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