Many of our childhood memories are likely reconstructions -- not really memories at all. "I suspec that this `amnesia of infancy' is no mrere effect of decay over time but an inevitable result of growing out of infancy." Minsky describes memories as "reconstructions of previous states of mind", which is certainly consistent with the notion of K-lines that he introduced a while back. "Memories are processes that make some of our agents act in much the same ways they did at various times in the past." Question: From this view of memory, how does limited capacity enter the picture? Is there a limit to the number of agents that can be active at any time?
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