{"id":2253,"date":"2016-08-23T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2016-09-12T00:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T00:54:37","slug":"indirect-remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Indirect Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting phenomenon about memory. I sometimes remember things in an indirect way, that is, rather than remembering something directly, I remember how it deviates from the default. Two examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On my father&#8217;s old car, I remembered how to open the window as &#8220;push the switch in the opposite way to what seems like the right direction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>On my computer, I remember how to find things about PhD vivas as &#8220;really these ought to be classified under <em>research<\/em>, but there&#8217;s already a directory called &#8216;external examining&#8217; under <em>teaching<\/em>, so go in there and look for the directory called <em>extExams<\/em> and then the sub-directory called <em>PhD<\/em>&#8220;.\n<\/ul>\n<p>It makes me wonder what other things that I do have a similar convoluted story in my memory, but where the process just all happens pre-consciously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting phenomenon about memory. I sometimes remember things in an indirect way, that is, rather than remembering something directly, I remember how it deviates from the default. Two examples: On my father&#8217;s old car, I remembered how to open the window as &#8220;push the switch in the opposite way to what seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22,5,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}