On the Drudge Report just now, there's a link to an article titled "Study: Half of people "remember" events that never happened".
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/half-of-people-remember-events-that-never-happened/
From the article: "The results also raise questions about the integrity of processes that rely heavily on human memory, from courtroom testimony to therapy treatments."
I don't doubt for a second that they're going to push the idea of false memory syndrome as a defense against the victims that come forward.
I highly recommend reading the following article:
"Perhaps nowhere has this played out more clearly than in trying to help the courts decide whether someone is telling the truth or not. In August 2014, Michael Brown, a young, unarmed man in Ferguson, MO was fatally shot by a police officer in broad daylight. Witnesses to the event give dramatically different accounts of the events. Did they perceive the events differently? Do they remember them differently? Are some of them lying?
Whether an account is accurate or not may have nothing to do with whether someone is intentionally trying to deceive. Memory is not perfect and what you retrieve is not a veridical rendition of what you saw. It is open to forgetting, failures to encode, distortions, biases and misattributions of the source. But, the fact that it is imperfect, and that memory for an event may contain both accurate and inaccurate aspects does not mean the person must be intentionally lying. It merely means that some portion of the memory is false. How we perceive the world is driven not only by what enters our brain through our eyes, ears, and other sensory receptors, but also by our expectations. Often called “top-down” influences, these expectations drive what we attend to and what we see and are themselves driven by how our past experiences have shaped us. Two individuals with different backgrounds can therefore honestly witness the same event and “see” it differently." http://www.dana.org/Publications/ReportOnProgress/Truth,_Lies,_and_False_Memories__Neuroscience_in_the_Courtroom/
When trials begin and victims testify, we must remember that these people have suffered traumatic events and some of their memories may be distorted, but we should not simply assume that they are all lying or they have had false memories implanted by someone with an agenda.
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totesgoats908234 ago
Yes, they already tested this theory by making up "Mandela Effect" to see how many halfwits would bite.
Don't forget that the winners of history write the history books.
fuspezza ago
I'm one of those halfwits you speak of. So what can one be sure of then. If I were to ask you that for $1000 answer how Darth Vedder announce to how they were related. You can go of common knowledge and answer what is embedded in your brain, but keep in mind that it's a good amount of money so you research your answer after your research you second guess yourself. For final anewer you submit what you knew in your heart, brain, and spine to be true. You go with "Luke, I am your father" and loose the price.when you contest you are presented with all kinds of different Web results claiming the correct answer is "No, I am your father. In addition now that I have your attention can you tell me the shape of the earth, if we landed on the moon, did dinosaurs ever exist, was Hitler reasonably kind hearted, and the purpose of Egyptian Pyramids? Keep in mind that all info/evidence on these creeps is also in plain sight just as the answers to the questions I and many others have.
With that said check out what I wrote to someone who like many off us are in need of something real and everlasting IE. KNOWLEDGE
Scoundrel ago
I bet you have absolute zero knowledge on dwave/dwave2 and what the company claims they're doing with it.