The Psychology of Severance | Who You Are... Without Memory
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About this video essay:
A spoiler-free analysis of the show Severance, and several other pieces of media, that explores how our memory really works, how it relates to our identity and sense of self, and who we would be without it.
Chapters:
0:00 Prologue
1:10 Identity without Memory?
4:44 Episodic Memory
6:14 Semantic Memory
7:41 Interrelations
9:09 Explicit and Implicit Memory
9:18 Procedural Memory
10:21 Priming
13:16 Complicating factors
14:15 Identity beyond Memory
15:53 Nature Versus Nurture
18:23 Relating Ourselves to Ourselves
20:30 Cosmic Memories
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Media included:
A Beautiful Mind; A Fantastic Woman; Beautiful Boy; Big Little Lies; Blade Runner 2049; Brokeback Mountain; Dead Poets Society; Devs; Dopesick; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Her; Inception; Knight of Cups; Memento; Moonlight; Paterson; Pig; Ratatouille; Severance; The Bourne Identity; The Matrix 4: Resurrections; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Voyage of Time
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Music:
Lights & Motion – Ghost of You
Dexter Britain – Time to Run (original piano)
Greg Thomas – Form
Dexter Britain – Dream Array
Dexter Britain – Voices in the Wind
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