Another thing that's annoying abt how ppl talk about this is they don't reckon with how memories are generated in the act of rememberinghttps://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/830433891416678401 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I read that article about the Shazam movie. I guarantee you most details abt the movie they saw were generated while they were talking
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Which would be the same if you asked about a real movie they really did see - factoids that, upon mentioning them, you spin out into threads
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It's an unremarkable feature of human psychology and social interaction that we pretend is remarkable
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A pollster asks your opinion of the Bowling Green Massacre, your first reaction is to gamely try to recall what he's talking about
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You rarely just admit defeat and go "I don't know, what is that" bc no one wants to be Gary Johnson on public
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Anyway I thought we as a society had confronted false memories with the Satanic ritual abuse scandals of the 1980s, which ruined lives
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I read an SF story that worked as a pretty good demonstration of how memory doesn't work
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The idea being the horrible looming catastrophe was that as ppl were living longer and being exposed to more info their memory "filled up"
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Until eventually one by one people's memories hit 100% capacity and they keeled over catatonic, incapable of action or thought
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Obviously this doesn't happen and isn't even very similar to how our brains work
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In reality the brain is extremely leaky and throws away data constantly and that's normal and OK
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