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Re:False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds by cal85 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:58AM (#35466347)
“Generating what they believe to have occurred” sounds like another way of saying “false memory”. What am I missing?
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Re:False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds by chiefalchemist on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:44AM (#35466604)
I'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.

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Re:False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds by pas on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:18AM (#35466846)
it'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 :)

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Re:False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds by cal85 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:43AM (#35467584)
No 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?
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