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Need some help to understand and explain the statement "declarative memory would make all the actions we know how to do lack anything meaningful" I need to write 2 page paper about it but I don't understand the statement

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This statement essentially seems to mean that due to the fact that declarative memory is basically the conscious memory or memorization of knowledge and or factual information, that recalling this type of information is mechanical and impersonal in nature, and therefore lacks true meaning. In essence, due to the fact that we have the ability to consciously recall knowledge and other types of factually-based information that is inert with an eye memory banks, we would tend to utilize this information and a systematic and or mechanical manner which would not be accompanied with any true feeling or emotion etc. These ...

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