Before a baby is born, they obviously have no memory, and it is said that childhood memories are a retrospective of one's life.
From infancy to childhood and adolescence, it seems to be the construction of personal history, a series of concepts planted in the minds of children aged six to twelve, such as justice, morality, honesty, intelligence, wit, safety awareness, foreigners, strength, obedience.
Memory and the inheritance of memory begin here, with personal memory intertwined and mixed with inherited memory.
Private personal history and distant history must always be mutually explained, otherwise there will be some problems. This is what is meant by the small problems of childhood, and the question of whose child it is.
Yu the Great passing by his own door three times without entering is official history, while the neighbor's child passing by the cram school three times without entering is private personal history. If there were no neighbors like Yu the Great, then in distant history, Yu would have passed through not his immortal door, but the door of a small dining table.
Using only a small dining table is certainly unable to explain the complexity of memory, but it cannot be said that this has no basis. The small dining table you can remember can only be made of melamine boards, not the Immortals' table made of fragrant yellow rosewood.
Memory is discontinuous from infancy, and no matter how real the past is, it will never be real in his born moment. This is a new node in the network, where the entire world contracts becomes a small dot.
The key to mutual understanding between people lies here, but the inability to understand each other also lies here:
There is a significant choice in childhood, which is to look back and find or choose a memory to inherit, assuming that the environment can provide different memories.
If all fourth-grade children have only one memory, this does not mean it is terrible, but it means that the environment is stable. If fifth-grade children inherit two or more memories at the same time, this does not mean personality splitting, but rather expansion of understanding.
For some people, what is terrible is not having memory, and a millennial empire is just one year, and a culture of ten thousand years is just Yu the Great digging the soil.
But terrible does not mean it is wrong. With many people, there is great power. Jumping into the meme pool and splitting to the next generation, new official histories are created in distant places.
Some people believe that camping in the wilderness and freezing like foolish dogs without returning home, their families can understand why Yu the Great passed by the small dining table three times without entering, because everyone is human, and there are similar family structures and common biological foundations. By putting oneself in other people's shoes, true understanding can be achieved. At the same time, there are others who do not think that those who adjust gradient water papers every day can understand those who cultivate terraced fields and control water, which is the god of Yu the Great, and one with realistic miracles, that is the god that neural networks cannot find.
There is no right or wrong in belief; it is a matter of trust.
If all newly discovered things are discovered for the second time after being pre-stuffed into one's brain, then all memories in secondhand time are memories that have been pre-stuffed into one's brain and rediscovered. Is it really important whether the fish that lay on the ice to catch the bait actively took the bait, or whether the fireflies in a jar of snow reflected the light while holding a lantern? Because this is a choice of childhood routes, a choice of memory, and a pre-buried map in the desert.