Julia Shaw on memories that aren't true
The Life Scientific
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How Do We Know When We Have False Memories?
Our brains just aren't there to perfectly reliably record the past. Our brains are there to navigate the present and to think about the future. And accordingly, things like false memories are a by product of that incredible ino capacity for intelligence. Ats it's unsettling to think that i might have made something up because i looked at a photograph, for example, and built a hole sena around it. That is completely wrongthat sort of depends on how important those memories are to you. If we're all creating and recreating our past all the time, if memory is, as you say, as malleable as lay, then we are all deluded to a greater or lesser extent
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