> I can build up a relatively vivid mental image of my walking route to school (from the bus terminal) over 40 years ago. Is it accurate? Who cares. It's not j

> I can build up a relatively vivid mental image of my walking route to school (from the bus terminal) over 40 years ago. Is it accurate? Who cares. It's not just decades old memories. Memory of recent events is likely to be suspect. Which is an issue for the legal system because it relies so heavily on eyewitness testimony. https://theconversation.com/new-research-reveals-how-little-we-can-trust-eyewitnesses-67663 https://theconversation.com/new-research-reveals-how-little-... Not only is human memory unreliable, it is also malleable. And if we are just a collection of our memories, then who are we really?