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“Generating what they believe to have occurred” sounds like another way of saying “false memory”. What am I missing?
by cal85 4y ago
“Generating what they believe to have occurred” sounds like another way of saying “false memory”. What am I missing?
- chiefalchemist 4y agoI'm not a neurologist but...I think it's a three (or more) step process. The basic version: - Store it. - Sitting in storage - Recall it. With each subject to imperfections. For example, recall doesn't find something in storage so it "fills in the blanks". The mind is not a machine. It's got plenty of quirks.
- pas 4y agoit's very much a machine though, just happens to be the most complex one we know of, so far! and considering that it's got pretty great manufacturing precision, tolerances, and MTBF :)
- cal85 4y agoNo clearer. Are you saying that when recall “fills in the blanks” that’s not false memories? What can “false memories” possibly mean if not that?