And when people are asked "what do you think of band X" for an X which does not exist, they may answer you as if X existed. And later they may even forget that

And when people are asked "what do you think of band X" for an X which does not exist, they may answer you as if X existed. And later they may even forget that they were fabricating and come to believe it themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519764 ("We Are All Confident Idiots") Memory is reconstructive. Memory is aspirational. Memory is an evolutionary adaptation. Memory is lossy and iterative. Memory is an unconscious advantage-seeking collaborator. People are (for whatever reasons) given more credit for conscious decisions than for unconscious reflexes, so it is in their interest to make it seem as if their actions were under conscious control. So memory does that for them.