Immortality exists on film over many decades. Does it also exist in our recollections?

I disagree. I did not experience what it would be like to be an EMPATH but I have a very strong recollection/memory of the young woman who played that role on a TV show. Similarly I never experienced living in the town of Mayberry and knowing the sheriff but I used to watch the show all the time and I have a very strong recollection/memory of what life was like as depicted in the TV show. So I don't understand your comment at all Shuhak. Perhaps it is because I don't understand where you are coming from. Thank you for your reply. Perhaps you can explain yourself? This post was edited by RosieG at July 22, 2020 12:51 PM MDT

Perhaps my wording is what threw you.  I was using the word "experiencing" as in seeing.  Seeing something (like on TV) is a form of experiencing it.  A memory can be formed from anything that is sensed (tasted, touched, seen, smelled, etc.).  One can even have a memory of a dream.   

Now, I seriously doubt you ever actually visited Mayberry, or had a conversation with Andy, Otis or even Gomer.  The only memories of them came from what was presented to you on TV.  Therefore, if none of the episodes of Andy Griffith ever showed Barney Fife walking through the streets of LA, then you couldn’t have a memory of it.  You could have seen the actor walking in LA, but that would have been Don Knotts, not Barney Fife. You might imagine it, but that’s not a memory. 

Does that make more sense?

To me "experiencing" means actually living it. To know what giving birth is like you have to experience/live it. You have to get pregnant carry the child to term and then give birth. Reading about it or seeing movies about it or taking classes does not mean you have actually EXPERIENCED it. So yes the problem was my definition of "experiencing" is different from yours. Of course you can't recollect anything about which you know nothing. Unless you read minds? I looked up the word and it covers OBSERVING ENCOUNTERING OR UNDERGOING. For you experiencing is observing. For me it is "undergoing". So we got that straightened out. Thank you for your reply Shuhak! "_ This post was edited by RosieG at July 23, 2020 12:21 PM MDT