| CONFUSION AND ABSENTMINDEDNESS - | | | | contained -yet were 'remembered' books and a |
| FORGETFULNESS | | | | telephone which it did not -a barn not seen but |
| (Based on author's site | | | | suggested in questioning within 20 minutes by half, a |
| Confusion and absentmindedness affect not only the | | | | week later by 80% , were 'remembered' as having |
| elderly; nor do they occur only in cases of Amnesia | | | | been seen (in the UK in 2003 the British Psychological |
| or Dementia -Alzheimer's disease ~everyone in daily | | | | Association struck off a government criminal |
| life suffers to one extent or another, sometimes | | | | psychological profiler for manipulating a murder |
| with significant consequences, from, both, confusion | | | | 'confession'). Confusion is caused normally by this |
| and absentmindedness. | | | | natural function of man's memory. |
| What is 'memory' there have been many scientific, | | | | 2. Absentmindedness is caused by perfectly natural |
| academic, theories about ~even in cases of simplest | | | | 'slips of action' ~experiment have shown 35 people in |
| and least complex brains and nerve systems science | | | | one single week to have made 400 of them |
| has little knowledge and only sketchy understanding | | | | (excluding many of insignificance and not recorded) -it |
| of it -theories have varied from 'neural' assuming that | | | | is failure to wholly or in part retrieve from, or to |
| changes in the anatomy of the brain take place when | | | | keep long enough in, memory actions or the |
| something is seen or heard or experienced and | | | | sequence or the goal of actions carried out and/or to |
| learned, to 'electrical' supposing changes in the | | | | be carried out in the existing situation and/or in one |
| electrical fields in the brain, to 'biochemical' believing | | | | or more other situations triggerable by it: the |
| that that causes in the molecular structure of the | | | | memory mechanism, especially in ordinary routine |
| brain's cells a re-alignment. | | | | actions almost inattentively, automatically, performed |
| How we remember is now accepted by science -the | | | | (and more so if their importance have lessened |
| thinkers of millennia ago were right: the human brain | | | | -indeed by the passing of time itself) tends to switch |
| contains a number of schemata each schema storing | | | | from specific to schematic, general, retrieval; it is |
| different types of related information (basically, first | | | | how man's memory is naturally constructed and |
| in limited-capacity sensory registers -often as strings | | | | normally functions. |
| of information, processing some and passing them | | | | Diet and Exercise help, some suggest, reduce |
| into short-memory in order to process more, any of | | | | confusion and absentmindedness -and indeed may be |
| significance transferring to long-memory and placing in | | | | a reason why some are more prone to confusion |
| the appropriate schema with others of same or | | | | and absentmindedness than others ~their |
| similar kind). The relevant parts of the stored | | | | recommendations being the inclusion in one's diet of |
| information, when triggered by an event or intention, | | | | roughage (both, the weed called so from |
| are, as memory-trace, result of the change, recalled. | | | | health-shops or supermarkets, as well as foods |
| Why confusion and absentmindedness there are two | | | | containing fibre such as bran -these as compounds of |
| reasons generally agreed upon by psychiatrists and | | | | high molecular weight having in the body electrical |
| psychologists... | | | | potential when interfacing with water), and in a sitting |
| 1. Confusion arises ordinarily because memory, unless | | | | position after deeply inhaling and with one's back |
| the focus of the whole thing would be blatantly | | | | straight bending the body forward for a few seconds |
| incorrect, automatically adds to, or subtracts from, | | | | while holding the breath -no more than thrice a day |
| what has actually been seen or heard and | | | | and for a maximum of three minutes each time |
| remembers only as would fit in with the related | | | | (these [bio]electrically re-charging also the spleen |
| pre-formed schema -as expected or implied, | | | | associated with sense organs -visual memory tending |
| unconsciously integrated and interpreted | | | | directly from the sense organs to be transferred to |
| ~experiments about possible consequences (e.g. the | | | | one's memory). |
| discovery in 2003 that in the USA in the state of | | | | Confusion and absentmindedness only in 10% of |
| Illinois alone over 50% of convicts executed had | | | | those over 70/80 have the potential to develop into |
| been innocent) showed that in an office shown were | | | | more than ordinary everyday forms of them. |
| not remembered a skull, a bark, a rolling pin, it | | | | |