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Could this be why incorrect facts may be recollected as true after proved false? Pathway for "false" not "rewritten / erased" but "pre-empted" by possibly "less

• jemfinch 16y ago
  Obviously there are at least four people smarter than me here, because I can't for the life of me figure out what in the world you're trying to say.
  • danparsonson 16y ago
    I think what katovatzschyn is saying is that, if you've already decided something is true, it's encoded as 'true' in your brain and hence more easily remembered as such, even if you later discover that it's false.
  • astrofinch 16y ago
    He's saying that if you learn of an argument that shows Fact A to be false, instead of Fact A being deleted from your brain, that argument will be stored as Fact B in your brain. If Fact B is not sufficiently well-integrated in to your thinking then you will pretty much continue to believe Fact A. BTW don't feel bad that you couldn't understand his sentence, it was pretty hackneyed.
• mkramlich 16y ago
  Yes and I think it's part of the mechanism that makes propaganda and innuendo effective.