According to Wikipedia, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. The project I'm currently working on is intended to serve as an example of how memory is so malleable and is rarely ever truely accurate. I have a collection of videos from my life so I am able to actually look at my life in the 3rd person. Still, I cannot remember what it feels like to actually be in those moments. I am recording parts of my life but only from an outside perspective, which is odd because they are events that i have experienced. In order to show my relationship to the videos in my life and the changes the videos make to my actually memory, or lack of memory, i have to first understand the process of remembering and do research on memory itself. Accordig to a website entitled, "The Brain from Top to Bottom" short turn memory is the ability to hold on to a piece of information temporarily in order to complete a task. It causes certain regions of the brain to become very active, in particular the pre-frontal lobe. While, long term memory, is transferred through the hippocampus which is located in inner fold of the temporal lobe.All of the pieces of information decoded in the various sensory areas of the cortex converge in the hippocampus, which then sends them back where they came from. The hippocampus is a bit like a sorting centre where these new sensations are compared with previously recorded ones. The hippocampus also creates associations among an object’s various properties. When we remember new facts by repeating them or by employing various mnemonic devices, we are actually passing them through the hippocampus several times. The hippocampus keeps strengthening the associations among these new elements until, after a while, it no longer needs to do so. The cortex will have learned to associate these various properties itself to reconstruct what we call a memory.
That being said, we still can never really know how accurate a memory is. Even with time recorded, it is impossible to record the feelings of time in anything except your brain, and even your brain, may not remember feelings accurately.