Jon Udell on Nostr: "The brain does not monitor itself for truth; once encoded, a memory is simply there, ...
"The brain does not monitor itself for truth; once encoded, a memory is simply there, no matter how false it is, and a false memory can be as vivid, detailed, and laden with emotion as any other. The same neural networks are at play, and most of the time, we can’t tell the difference."
Another key insight: memory is (imperfect) reconstruction more than retrieval.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/mere-belief/#memory
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