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Isn't it actually known that every time a human brain recalls a piece of memory the memory gets slightly changed? If the answer has any length at all, I imagin
by mewpmewp2 2y ago
Isn't it actually known that every time a human brain recalls a piece of memory the memory gets slightly changed?
If the answer has any length at all, I imagine the answer can vary every single time the person answers, unless they prepared for it, memorized it word by word.
- vidarh 2y agoIt's also known that the brain is prone to outright constructing demonstrably fictional rationalisations of decisions it's never made. Any notion that we're reliable narrators of our own thoughts and actions is fiction.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoRight, that makes sense, our brain will do a quick black box judgment (some may call it system 1), and then rational process only works to justify that or explain the black box, assuming that black box is always correct (depending on the person and how much they trust their black box or system 1). So system 2 is "hallucinating" the best justification for system 1. And usually system 2 will do it only when it's required to justify it for anyone else.