210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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i think about the fact that these memories can be fictions, and pretty dense ones. And so thatit just simply becomes the story of who we are to ourselves and others. It's not even that it's a good thing. I mean, this is like with science in general, and like what we find isn't necessarily good or bad, it just is. So i think that's true with memories as well, as that this is how it works. And that is, it's what's important. In terms of understanding, and i think it can be really good for ampathy, to also understand why you might have, for example, a different story than somebody else.
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