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Further on Mistaken Attribution

Or little lost responsibility for actual deeds.


This is minor stuff here, but it is an interesting point about what I will call two different kinds of attribution memories in the brain.

In one type, this kind is necessary when there are interpersonal interactions and relationships that involve you and another, and so these nodes always have two possibilities, YOU, or a SPECIFIC OTHER. The thing about specific others is that they are always encoded to be one of two people, yourself, or some other specific person. Thus, for all of these types of nodes as they are used in the brain, they encompass all the people you had sufficient interactions with that the brain assigned them a node that sorted out the things you did and the things a specific person did.

And so, if you know a guy named Seth and he sells you white chocolate Zero Bars, then you will have at least one memory node in your brain that sorts out things you did from Seth. But only you or a specific other are possible for this type of memory encoding, so “Susan” cannot possibly result in flawed recollections regarding your acquisition of delicious white chocolate Zero Bars.

The other type of attribution memory node only encodes as yourself alone, and these are used for all things you actually did, and there aren’t other possibilities within that node for switching the attribution to another person.

Now when it comes to the effects of incorrect lengths of communication within the brain that causes flips to occur between meanings, then the implication of what I’ve written so far is that it is NOT possible for something you actually did SOLELY to flip attribution to another person.

This is because if you buy the lumber, nails, and hammer to build a shack to keep your wood pile in, and you then BUILD it, there is no need for the brain to sort out between self and other because no one helped you, and so the entire thing is encoded with a form of node that can only attribute YOU as the person who fulfilled a deed. Then, in the occurrence of a flip, this memory location still identifies you as who built the wood shack.

Another way of saying this is that for things you did alone, that neuron that chooses which following neurons to send a signal to do NOT have the identity of another person as any of the possible options at that node. In the event of a flip, the outcome is still interpreted as yourself.

It is only when someone else, through conversations between you or others, he or she traversing about in the area, he or she interacting with elements in the environment, ext. that the brain employs the kind of node that sorts out between you are that one specific person.

THEN, in the event of a concussion or something else that causes communication lengths to be incorrect in the brain, that if the self / other node is effected, attribution shifts from OTHER to SELF.

BUT, if you’ve been paying attention, under that same circumstance of other people bumbling around in the area and the brain needed nodes to sort between you and them, that you CAN lose responsibility, and if a flip occurs, attribution about something you actually did CAN shift to one of the other people bumbling about in the area, but only in your memory. Self becomes specific other when it was actually you that did something when adjacent to other people, but then an incorrect length flips the attribution to another specific person.

Long story short, people memory is encoded in only one of two ways. Either you are encoded alone as the only possibility, or it is a switching node that can go back and forth between your identity or some other specific person. This create a lot of potential nonsense if some occurrence forms incorrect lengths that touch these types of neurons that sort out between you or another single person.



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