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Tales From The Crypt (My Brain)
Dec. 9th, 2023 03:43 pmGotta say, after Hbomberguy's extremely thorough takedown of a plagiarizing YouTube Guy I feel a little better about a big fear of mine: cryptomnesia.
I have a hell of a good memory, and I retain information pretty well. This can be a problem when 1. the information I absorbed is wrong,* or 2. it pops up in my brain as something I think I'm coming up with on my own, which is the definition of cryptomnesia. I think it has to do with how I synthesize information as chunks, metaphors, references, and even a sort of echolalia, which I've noticed on this blog specifically.** But yeah, I have this fear of accidentally stealing other people's ideas.
But watching this video kind of lays that fear to rest. I still want to be careful and fact check myself, but there's no goddamn way I'm gonna wind up stealing entire passages from somebody else and then reword them stupidly. I can assure you that it's REALLY EASY not to copy huge chunks of text from someone else's work and pass it off as my own, so I don't have to worry so much about that.
What a relief.
*This is why I tend to fact check myself when I impart an Interesting Anecdote or Fact. Because who knows if the information I'm retaining is true?
**Ask me about my theories on Stranger Things as modeling neurodivergent storytelling! It's like watching a Darmok alien try to tell an original story!
I have a hell of a good memory, and I retain information pretty well. This can be a problem when 1. the information I absorbed is wrong,* or 2. it pops up in my brain as something I think I'm coming up with on my own, which is the definition of cryptomnesia. I think it has to do with how I synthesize information as chunks, metaphors, references, and even a sort of echolalia, which I've noticed on this blog specifically.** But yeah, I have this fear of accidentally stealing other people's ideas.
But watching this video kind of lays that fear to rest. I still want to be careful and fact check myself, but there's no goddamn way I'm gonna wind up stealing entire passages from somebody else and then reword them stupidly. I can assure you that it's REALLY EASY not to copy huge chunks of text from someone else's work and pass it off as my own, so I don't have to worry so much about that.
What a relief.
*This is why I tend to fact check myself when I impart an Interesting Anecdote or Fact. Because who knows if the information I'm retaining is true?
**Ask me about my theories on Stranger Things as modeling neurodivergent storytelling! It's like watching a Darmok alien try to tell an original story!
