We like to think of memory as a record of the past. But that’s not really what it is. Memory doesn’t keep the past — it can also remake it. It stitches fragments into stories, and those stories — true or not — are what we end up calling our life, and sometimes, our collective history.
Sean’s guest today is Charan Ranganath, a neuroscientist and author of a book called Why We Remember. The two discuss the strange alchemy of remembering and how the stories our minds create end up creating us.
Host: Sean Illing (<a href="https://x.com/seanilling?lang=en">@SeanIlling</a>)
Guest: Charan Ranganath, neuroscientist and author of <a href="https://charanranganath.com/">Why We Remember</a>

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