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The Lost Mariner - Jimmie lost his ability to form new memories due to Korsakov's Syndrome.
How important are our memories in making us the people we are?

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This solution discusses how important memories are in making individuals the way they are.

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For the sake of helping you with this, I'll try and provide arguments for both sides, and then you can pick a side that fits best with your own thoughts on the matter. I'll provide some basic arguments for you to build upon.

Memories, we'll presume, refers to the conscious, episodic memories such as events or people. Our experiences shape us - that much is undeniable. We develop patterns of thought, processes to follow in order to react to contexts based on experiences to a large extent. If one is approached by a novel problem and figures out a solution to solve it, one is more likely to use that same thought process to solve the problem again. The same goes for most experiences in life - we react to certain contexts and situations in similar ways that we have handled such situations before. It can be argued ...

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