Posted by: Elegiac
Posted by: angryMan69
Posted by: Elegiac
Ehhhh, I was just being a smartass. Emotions aren't so much markers for memories as memories are markers for emotions. At the very least the two go hand in hand. It's a set of information contained in the memory: where you were, how you felt and what was happening at the time. Being in a place that you've been before can evoke a memory of an emotion tied to it just as easily as an emotion can bring a memory to the surface. Interesting, that is true since I have been stoic and I thought of a joke and I felt happy. Still emotions seem to trigger memories a lot more than memories triggering emotions since when fear crosses your mind all the memories associated with fear come up as a way to figure out what to do in a situation since the emotion of fear was dealt with before. This could be an evolutionary reaction to situations where life is giving us stimuli.With strong emotions, yeah. But we're not always feeling strong emotions, so I'm not of the mind to say 'emotions seem to trigger memories a lot more than memories triggering emotions'. Now that I think of it stoicism, an emotion of neutrality, has made me try to seek memories tied to make me feel happy just like when you go seeking through your hard drive for a file then you search through the documents. Basically weak emotions can lead us to search through our memories like stoicism.