Are You Not Your Memories?

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Julia Shaw: Can you implant memories and give people a perceived childhood, maybe that wasn't quite the way that they rememberit, or didn't have it at all? Potentially, if we're talking about robots, can you give a robot a history by just giving them fake memories? And if so, what do those memories look like? What makes them feel real? To me, that's a fundamental question. It's one thing to get people to believe untruths, or believe sort of fake news, if you will,. s are facts, individual pieces of information that are factorally inaccurate. That is incredibly easy, which we all have so many misconceptions. We are

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion.

Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

From her book’s website: “In The Memory Illusion, Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memory can indeed be led astray. Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, the international bestseller The Memory Illusion has been translated into 20 languages and offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.”

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