S2 Ep42: Someone Else's Memory
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
4.0 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Come see Strange and Unexplained on Tour! Daisy is bringing her FANTASTIC live show--covering The Escape From Alcatraz--to NYC on April 3, Boston on April 20, and Washington DC on April 23. And Daisy will be sticking around for a live Q&A and meet and greet after the show! Get Your Tickets Now!
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| 1:39.1 | What is memory? The Oxford English Dictionary defines memory as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. |
| 1:56.5 | Or something remembered from the past, a recollection. But the OED doesn't weigh in on the factual accuracy of those recollections. |
| 2:06.8 | Nor does it mention how or where memories are stored. Our current understanding is that they form and are stored in our brains. |
| 2:15.3 | Our brains, after all, are the motherboards of our bodies. But what if memories could also live somewhere else within us? |
| 2:24.6 | Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor who cannot remember what I ate for breakfast, |
| 2:31.6 | but remembers all the words to the Mr. Ed theme song and word for word what Sally Chowowski said to me in the fourth grade that made me cry. |
| 2:40.2 | And if you're listening, Sally, no, you are the one with soup breath. |
| 2:45.6 | This week, we're going to put some tape on the bridges of our glasses and get out our pocket protectors and nerd out over memories. |
| 2:53.0 | Not so much the content of memories, but rather where the memories live in our bodies. |
| 2:58.7 | How is it that some people who have received organ transplants will swear their new organ came with memories of its former life with its former owner, even though we know that's impossible? |
| 3:11.2 | Or do we? |
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