ENCORE: Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Mandela Effect: A Case of False Memory Creation
Patton: I think what he's basically saying is like, it isn't a thing. It's like this is what things happen that get confused together. And so people confuse Biko and Mandela. So that's why there's all this confusion, but it isn't really a thing. You're sort of right in between there, man. I think the memory is so active. It's not a passive receiver of information. It goes out and constructs reality. That's how I'm reading Todd. He says "I agree with you with that idea that memory isn't like a static thing"
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