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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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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Ableism ties into this - we peg unusual brains as "defective" to avoid confronting how all brains are poor tools for what we use them for
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The word "rational" is very slippery but whatever a "normal" "healthy" brain is, it isn't that
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I feel like the Mandela Effect is the Dunning-Kruger Effect for memory - ppl I know who are v good at recall know why recall goes wrong
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They're able to trace the mental garden paths that create false memories that the Mandela Effect ppl are unwilling to
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(I didn't ever think the Sinbad genie movie existed but I can easily see how I might have been tricked into remembering one)
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(Kazaam and First Kid came out the same year. Both buddy comedies with a tall black guy and a white kid)
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